" Edwards said he wrote the email to "placate her feelings.
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And, to help placate affected businesses, manufacturing taxes would fall.
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These episodes didn't placate the anxieties of their darker counterparts.
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To placate Tunisia's powerful unions, the government has raised salaries.
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Would a Trump victory actually placate his more extreme supporters?
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And yet small commiserations can no longer placate our outrage.
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Mr Kalanick's departure should be enough to placate some alienated customers.
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Could Erdogan unleash refugees to extract revenge or placate his audience?
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They buy Patriot missiles as a way to placate our president.
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The government has tried to placate voters without abandoning its policies.
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"Li Peng, step down to placate public outrage," the poem said.
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"We're your family now," Alicia says, in an effort to placate.
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It's as if they were designed specifically to placate anxious parents.
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But those steps were not enough to placate the activist group.
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But for Mr. Mattis, the planning serves to placate Mr. Trump.
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The moves did not appear to be enough to placate critics.
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Both restaurants have sometimes had to placate confused or outraged customers.
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However, Jandali said Reddit isn't making these changes to placate advertisers.
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But an ambition for further development is hardly going to placate America.
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They can lead to more mixed districts and placate left-wing critics.
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He's shown much more flexibility on these issues, to placate Republican orthodoxy.
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Advisers have highlighted the risk of going too far to placate foreigners.
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Rather than placate Trump's supporters, Cruz played both ends against the middle.
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She may have sent those sexts to placate a man in power.
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That should placate a sceptical Germany, but will hardly satisfy the Kremlin.
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Desperation because he has nowhere left to go to placate his base.
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He needed to neutralize militias, placate the Israelis, or satiate the Syrians.
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It's not just skeptical South Koreans whom Mr. Moon needs to placate.
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Mr. Trump will need more than that to placate his political base.
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The announced time frame did not placate some Olympic athletes and leaders.
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This was insufficient — either to advance negotiations, or to placate his critics.
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It remains unclear if Mr. Hariri can deliver enough to placate Riyadh.
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Go ahead and unravel, placate yourself with your fantasy life, it's fine!
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Simulacra of persuasion are just something occasionally required to placate the media.
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Credit to Brad, who wrings his hands and desperately tries to placate her.
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Mrs Kramp-Karrenbauer will also seek to placate her opponents inside the CDU.
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The secretary of state, Mike Pompeo (pictured left), tried to placate the Europeans.
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The offer of free french fries is no way to placate angry residents.
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Nate I don't see the utility of Pence, except to placate social conservatives.
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The problem is what, exactly, can they offer him that will placate him?
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But the efforts failed to placate Mr. Rizvi and several other religious leaders.
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If they think they can placate him, they'll probably find that doesn't work.
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She said she refused and once tried to placate him with a hug.
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That was not enough, however, to placate some Central and Eastern European countries.
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But instead of trying to placate its critics, the administration should double down.
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America should focus on rallying its friends, not trying to placate its enemies.
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But that does not seem likely to placate the most fervent Brexit supporters.
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Whether he was serious or just trying to placate his friends remains unclear.
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To placate Congress, Mr. Trump named a new "acting" secretary for homeland security.
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That, however, failed to placate a client base riled up by the travel ban.
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To placate Moscow, Kazakhstan also joined Russia's Eurasian Union, albeit a slimmed down version.
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Few observers think the government will make big enough concessions to placate the demonstrators.
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As it stands, councils can placate NIMBYish residents by deliberately underestimating future housing needs.
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Cameron's approach was to placate the Euroskeptics rather than challenge them — and it worked.
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Yankees fan heckle That didn't placate Yankees fans, who reveled in roasting the governor.
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It's easy to understand why Jones would want to placate right-wing Alabama voters.
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One hopes that the Mexican government will do enough to placate the U.S. president.
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The regional government named him head of security to placate his hard-line base.
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The other women cooed and hummed to try to placate her curly-haired toddler.
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The bottom line: Facebook's TikTok argument is unlikely to placate its most fervent critics.
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Ducey, meanwhile, will placate Arizona Republicans through his own re-election bid this fall.
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In many jurisdictions, officials choose to placate the police unions which stymie reform efforts.
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He and Ms Freeland will no doubt seek other ways to placate the west.
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"I think he is trying to find a diplomatic way to slow down the process to placate the business community and placate his political supporters," said Stephen R. Nagy, senior associate professor of politics and international studies at International Christian University in Tokyo.
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During Thrones' abnormally long hiatus, HBO attempted to placate fans by promising movie-length episodes.
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Placate venture capitalists, and they'll extend what might seem like an infinite line of credit.
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"Paper Boi" (Henry), could attain to placate people who are intrinsically threatened by their presence.
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It's an attempt from lawmakers to placate us and say, 'We gave you this thing.
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To placate the church, he has strictly enforced one of the world's toughest abortion laws.
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The federal health ministry dispatched senior officials, hoping to placate them, but to no avail.
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But in office he has shown an eagerness to placate monopolists and the mega-rich.
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That failed to placate Elliott which wants a vote to try to force out Burgmans.
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Perhaps predictably, though, Pichai's comments failed to placate his employees, and protests over Dragonfly continued.
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FX's revolutionary new show Pose will surely placate the diva brewing inside of every Leo.
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Brook Lopez's evolution helps, as does the disappearance of any need to placate Jabari Parker.
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City officials said they hope to placate riders by next summer with a bigger fleet.
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The efforts, Beijing believes, will help the Chinese economy even as they placate Mr. Trump.
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She was trying to placate Rocky until she felt safe enough to make a move.
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Mr. Trudeau has been philosophical about the limits of Canada's ability to placate Mr. Trump.
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It apparently thought a year of free credit monitoring would be enough to placate consumers.
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Perhaps the largest challenge was raising large amounts of capital to placate creditors and regulators.
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Maestro Kim's next provocation will paradoxically propel Seoul all the more vigorously to placate Pyongyang.
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That fall, to placate his father, he went to Georgetown, to get a business degree.
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Parents who "placate the gods of vaccination" are engaging in "child sacrifice," he told Vox.
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Challenge 1: How do you please, placate, manage, constrain, and inform a raging child-king?
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The Department of Environmental Protection said it would consider altering the proposed configurations to placate residents.
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And when Trump plays golf with people, I think that always -- PERINO: Will placate him more.
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It's possible lawmakers are refraining from additional focus on this subject in order to placate him.
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But he will placate us by saying this is about honoring the troops and their families.
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He said he originally proposed to her in February to placate her 82-year-old grandmother.
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The company's community and artist relations teams jumped into overdrive to placate the world's biggest popstar.
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Officials have said Trudeau will mount a charm offensive in a bid to placate the farmers.
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Erstwhile rock and roll rebels have cleaned up their acts to placate censors or been sidelined.
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Analysts said his resignation was an effort to placate more moderate voters ahead of the Oct.
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Democrats were often frustrated by what they saw as President Barack Obama's overeagerness to placate Republicans.
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The U.F.C. event was even shown in the MGM Grand to placate the restless boxing fans.
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She must also decide when to placate him and when to teach him to protect himself.
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The Trump team's instincts to placate their base may lead to more of these disastrous policies.
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Whole Foods attempted to placate Jana last month May by shaking up its board of directors.
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In the interim, Aetna, Humana, Anthem and Cigna may seek to placate investors with share buybacks.
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Last week you said Mike Pence was an uninspiring choice other than to placate social conservatives.
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Still, those testimonials are unlikely to placate the most agitated demonstrators in the streets of Philadelphia.
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However, his current plans are going to rely heavily on his vision to placate those investors.
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For centuries, women have been urged to repress their emotions in order to placate men. Enough.
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We should stop trying to placate those who chafe at the very values that liberalism espouses.
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Because he is not elected, he has no lobbyists, PACs or special interest groups to placate.
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Camp clearings placate neighbors, but don't solve the problem and just move complaints to other neighborhoods.
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All were employed Sunday, catering heavily to Thielen and Diggs early to placate any lingering frustrations.
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Mr. Sharif had to fire his information minister and two top aides to placate the army.
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In the meantime, to placate the people's clamoring for freedom, Khomeini established a parliament and president.
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You can either placate him by humoring his delusions, or puncture them and risk unpredictable fallout.
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To placate Tory hardliners, the white paper may try to present the plan as a temporary one.
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The renewed efforts, however, come as Trump administration officials are seeking to placate Erdogan over Khashoggi's murder.
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It's designed to placate the viewer … regardless of how the real events might have actually played out.
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Bouteflika's departure failed to placate many Algerians who want to topple the old guard and its associates.
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While the publicity is unlikely to placate opponents of U.S. bases, it should improve the Osprey's image.
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It's siding with an evil that abuses the fear of people in an attempt to placate them.
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But whether any of these efforts will be enough to placate US lawmakers remains to be seen.
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You are obligated to spiral through thoughts like this and then placate yourself with a candy cane.
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It is less likely to be an area where Beijing would cede ground to placate U.S. negotiators.
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To placate the Jameses and the MKs, the group hired GRACE to dig up the whole story.
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Among other potential benefits, aides to Mr. Trump hope bringing on additional personnel will placate those critics.
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How much longer the Fed's easy monetary policy will continue to placate Wall Street is anyone's guess.
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Taiwanese legislators accused the Kenyan government of violating international law and its own laws to placate China.
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I should have looked past his attempts to placate me and opened my eyes to his illness.
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Krueger denies BMW is spending and hiring in South Carolina as a way to placate the president.
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To placate them, Mr. Bannon counseled, the White House must extract wall funding at all costs. video
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Serena tried to placate the crowd disturbed by her loss and to give due recognition to Osaka.
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Her answer was anything but vanilla, and she certainly wasn't trying to placate country music's conservative base.
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Both appeared to be measures intended to placate Quebec's premier, François Legault, a co-founder of Transat.
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They placate students with favors, maintain stories at the level of deniable rumor, and attack whistleblowers mercilessly.
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Julia and Aurora try to placate the different factions – but they just end up stirring up more paranoia.
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The latest email to subscribers is a mind-boggling attempt to disarm and placate them with a puppy.
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Making NAFTA more like the TPP might help placate Mr Trump, even though he rejected the bigger deal.
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Do not imagine you can placate them by showering "development" and "reconstruction" on them in the postwar era.
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Abe is trying to placate Trump amid growing U.S.-Japan trade tensions and the threat of auto tariffs.
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So far, they have continued to placate Trump in office, regarding him as a vehicle for their agenda.
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The team is reportedly considering firing him in order to placate Chinese authorities and protect NBA investments there.
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But his departure failed to placate many Algerians who want to topple the old guard and its associates.
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Airbnb, which has denied having a significant impact on housing shortages, has been trying to placate local authorities.
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"The action appears in every respect ... intended to placate Indian companies and local traders," Walmart told the USTR.
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Many creators saw their revenue hurt during "Adpocalypse" last year after YouTube introduced new policies to placate advertisers.
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Democrats said they were left out of negotiations, with Ryan only trying to placate an implacable right flank.
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"The action appears in every respect ... intended to placate Indian companies and local traders," Walmart told the USTR.
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As was the case in the House, there are moderates, conservatives, and members with personal concerns to placate.
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But the above scenario seems the most likely outcome, since it would placate both progressives and moderate Republicans.
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Instead, conservative media outlets have decided that it's better to placate an angry base than to challenge it.
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I'd placate this young person, and while in the end I was shaken, no one would be hurt.
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The bigwigs see trouble in their target markets, and so they placate the markets by removing the offenders.
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It's time to call SALT what it truly is — a horrible subsidy aimed to placate high-tax states.
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It was a ruse needed to placate the politicians who demanded a cost benefit analysis of Basel III.
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She's not looking for an off-ramp to placate a constituency or to bow to the establishment gods.
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Whether he believes any of this or seized it as an opportunity to placate his audience isn't clear.
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I developed a strong work ethic of my own accord, instead of doing it to placate my family.
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It's all about ISISDefense Department officials attempted to placate concerns over the US's seemingly newfound duties in Syria.
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To placate the outraged military and Romanian fascists, he named the brutal General Antonescu to head his government.
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When Ms. Colón graduated from high school, she enrolled in college mainly to placate her mother, she said.
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Lastly, few believe that a sale would placate America's national-security apparatus, at least in the short run.
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"In the context of a private conversation, I made political decisions to placate this guy," Mr. Castorina said.
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Mr. Bannon argues that it would be a fool's errand to try to placate Democrats on Capitol Hill.
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There are no significant regulatory differences to iron out and no subsidy-hungry special interest groups to placate.
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"China wants to placate us by buying some soybeans, but the White House wants real change," Cramer said.
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But that is unlikely to placate many passengers, as Monday is the end of a long holiday weekend.
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Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, then backfilled the bill with money intended to placate moderates.
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The cabinet's new plan may not be enough to placate protesters and the politicians who've sided with them.
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And while Obama was able to placate the progressive base, Booker's ties to Wall Street may prevent that.
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It's unclear if the warning letter will be enough to placate the critics, but it's certainly a start.
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In an effort to placate Washington, Mr. Guterres has opted not to present a written report at all.
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And when oil prices plunged, so did foreign currency reserves and the government's ability to placate the public.
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That did not placate Amazon, which said the city was not effectively spending the money it already had.
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House Republicans dismiss the committee probe as political overreach calculated to placate Democratic voters who want Trump impeached.
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But with the economy souring and the youth less fearful of change, he has struggled to placate Algerians.
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This is News Shopper's raison d'être: to alert you to danger and then placate you with toilet humor.
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The group blocked the aisle for 15 minutes before some women agreed to swap their places to placate them.
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When this failed to placate protesters, the Organization of American States stepped in to help design an alternative plan.
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"Muscle weighs more than fat," my husband offered, but I could tell he was just trying to placate me.
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To placate employees, Google promised a new ethics policy around AI development, which the company made public on Thursday.
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But his departure has failed to placate many Algerians who want to topple the old guard and its associates.
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But that reality is unlikely to placate Democrats who are watching Clinton's lead over Trump ebb in national polls.
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In an apparent attempt to placate them, he suggested on April 12th that he might consider rejoining the TPP.
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And at the Republican-dominated state legislature, several lawmakers are working on statewide deregulation to placate Uber and Lyft.
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The best way to deal with them is to distract them or placate them, while never ceding any power.
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Pence is the obvious choice to placate panicked Republicans—which is not exactly on-brand for the Trump campaign.
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Cookie placates him, but she's really trying to placate her emerging feelings for the manipulative, good-for-nothing Lucious.
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Having asked them to dismantle Iran's nuclear programme, Mr Khamenei will need to placate Iran's hardliners in other ways.
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But presidential budget proposals are rarely taken seriously and often amount to a wish list to placate various constituencies.
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Giuliani isn't the first lawyer who's tried to placate Trump with short-term reassurances for long-term legal problems.
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Storch's exit underscored the board's attempt to "buy time and placate investors to address underperformance and undervaluation," Litt added.
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But Paul's first apology didn't placate the growing anger and was criticized as being tone-deaf and self-praising.
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But the efforts to placate Mr. Rizvi and several other religious leaders failed, and demonstrations began three weeks ago.
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Carriers worldwide will have to decide whether Boeing's proposed fixes will satisfy their safety requirements and placate worried consumers.
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Analysts say the so-called slave law was a government effort to placate car companies worried about labour shortages.
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More of the time, we placate our instinctive concern for a noise that probably sounds worse than it feels.
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Anheuser-Busch InBev completed the deal to buy SABMiller in October, selling assets along the way to placate regulators.
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Seade has been leading negotiations with U.S. officials seeking to placate Democratic concerns about enforcement in the new deal.
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But the FDA pulled the plug at the last moment to placate the most resistant segments of the industry.
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Mr. Macron says he isn't seeking to reduce France's pension spending — a point the government hopes will placate protesters.
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GOP leadership decided on the plan to placate defense hawks and conservatives, but Democrats are likely to oppose it.
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But it is not enough to placate hard-liners, who wanted Catalans to vote on whether to secede entirely.
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To placate residents, Murray ordered the RVs moved to two new sanctioned lots in isolated parts of the city.
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"They've taken the approach of trying to placate Trump rather than pushing back, and that response has failed," she said.
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Since then, the administration has sought to placate workers, notably with assurances that May&aposs delayed wages will be paid.
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Paull's experience from his time as senior vice president and chief financial officer at McDonald's could also placate Chipotle's investors.
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While thunder vests can often placate the animal, they do not act as a long term solution, according to Hecker.
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Whether the combination of the bilateral measures and EU agreement is enough to placate the CSU is not yet clear.
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Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, seeking to placate community frustration, said preventing similar attacks would be difficult despite heightened security.
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The latest committee of inquiry created by her government to placate foreigners says its role is not to apportion blame.
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President Hillary Clinton would enjoy comparable support whenever she chose to indulge her progressive instincts or placate the Democratic base.
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While Russian liberals cringed, most people saw it as a fairly harmless symbolic gesture to placate ageing Communist Party voters.
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As I wrote at the time, even that failed to placate stockholders and the price continued to plunge further down.
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Governments have raised discretionary spending during booms, to placate clamorous constituents, then cut it during busts, to appease jittery creditors.
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She knew this was weak of her, but she always wanted to placate him, to try to do her best.
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Stiff entrance fees were planned to placate domestic opposition to casinos, centered on fears of a rise in gambling addiction.
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This could pose a threat to the country's efforts to placate the West in a bid to see sanctions lifted.
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Netflix is making a major play to placate Hollywood celebs and producers as it continues its quest for Oscar glory.
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Let's not forget how Mr. Trump once described the Russian leader and the risks inherent in trying to placate him.
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Turnbull, considered a moderate, tried to keep this rightward rebellion in check, granting concessions and trying to placate the hardliners.
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That is unlikely to placate advocates who want the government to prevent broadband companies from exercising control over the internet.
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Jacqueline's mother tries to placate Jessie with a Luna bar, but then laughs about how Cole took the last one.
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But most Wall Streeters see that as an effort to placate the Democratic base and reel in Bernie Sanders votes.
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To placate your boredom, quite a few alternative, online-first brands have swooped in to offer creative and interesting solutions.
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He also tried to placate critics who have complained about the abundance of fake news and hate speech on Twitter.
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The statement left observers wondering: Was Mnuchin trying to placate Trump, or does he know something the markets don't know?
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For example, during consideration of last year's tax bill, some members admitted needing to support the bill to placate donors.
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Brandeis and Holmes were friendly, he writes, and Brandeis may have been trying to placate Holmes, as well as Taft.
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To the contrary, he explained, the entire reason for the program was to placate critics of the administration's Syria policy.
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The exemption was designed to placate small banks, which are the more likely to keep their loans under the threshold.
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Later, on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront," Pierson said she made the comments captured on the tape to placate Manigault Newman.
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But a judicial review is unlikely to placate those who have accused the Law and Justice Party of dangerous revisionism.
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Google has a deep bag full of high-growth businesses it can draw from and unwrap to placate antsy shareholders.
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What Democrats absolutely should not do is weaken the legislation in an attempt to placate Republicans or Big Pharma donors.
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In one appearance last summer, he suggested Rosenstein could squeeze the Mueller budget as a way to placate the president.
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Eager to placate the base, the Democratic Party steamrolled their ill-conceived health insurance plan with absolutely zero Republican support.
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But that was not enough to placate the faction, part of the reason that Thursday's vote was placed on hold.
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But their additions aren't enough to placate Democrats who hoped to see new blood at the very top of leadership.
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The changes made since that CBO score, to placate conservatives, are likely to reduce coverage further (in quantity, quality, or both).
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Their focus on demonizing the most vulnerable among us in order to placate those fearful of change has been completely unchecked.
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But beyond that there is no indication what the statement will contain or whether it will be enough to placate demonstrators.
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It "could be a creative way for Democratic leadership to placate the progressive and activist wings of the party," she wrote.
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Price's repayment of $51,887.31 for his own travel costs and his public expression of regrets did not placate the White House.
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With the exit procedure postponed, EU leaders are in no mood to placate the U.K. or rush to the negotiating table.
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In their efforts to placate Mr Kim, other leaders have all but gone silent on the North's atrocious human-rights record.
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Instead of trying to placate her rolling stone of a husband, she has the receipts and isn't afraid to use them.
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Even more important: The deal will placate investors worried that China was going to be a financial black hole for Uber.
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"I fear that military leadership will say anything to placate Congress and an outraged public, but then do nothing," she said.
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The Saudi royal family used some of the dollars to placate the kingdom's religious establishment, which historically has legitimized its rule.
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When Annie goes home and proposes the same routine, Steve scoffs and sighs but, to placate her, goes along with it.
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Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue helped placate aggravated farmers after tariffs and is overseeing billions in payments to help offset their difficulties.
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It's unclear whether the two sides will settle before then, perhaps with Yahoo adding new directors to placate the hedge fund.
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And though Caterpillar did not attract a public activist investor, it did placate shareholders by parting company with CEO Doug Oberhelman.
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Finding phone representatives who know how to interact with consumers, and perhaps placate the irritated ones, seems like the easy part.
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But the way to placate the other big group of critics – UK residents that don't live in London – looks less watertight.
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They spin gold into flax, striving to placate the unworthy sufficiently so as, one day, to be admitted to their number.
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That doesn't mean fair-minded people should placate homophobes, misogynists and or racists to win an election — although that does happen.
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Voting against Friedman to placate the far left would be unfortunate and would be interpreted as succumbing to further political pressure.
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BANYAN TREES AND BARBED WIRE The concession didn't placate the protesters, who demanded a full and formal scrapping of the bill.
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Others thought that it was leaning too heavily on nostalgia to placate the fandom after a prequel trilogy that many despise.
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The move further isolated Bouteflika, who has failed to placate the protesters by reversing a decision to seek a fifth term.
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"I worry that this (McCarrick's expulsion) is not going to be anything more than the equivalent of the pope tossing a bone to placate his critics, placate the survivors," said Phil Saviano, who was molested by a priest in Massachusetts when he was 12 years old and whose story was told in the 2015 Oscar-winning film Spotlight.
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Panicking, in shock, I remember weighing up the options and wondering how much I needed to placate him to keep myself safe.
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Also, one time he fell for a hoax post claiming the White House created a fake "gorilla channel" to placate the president.
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Still, Mexico has detained thousands of migrants, deported many more and pledged to do what it can to placate the Trump administration.
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To placate the right, last-minute changes were made to the Republican repeal plan, stripping out those minimum standards for health policies.
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In response, some current and former Fed officials have begun to call for steps to placate the U.S. central bank's harshest critics.
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He says despite the fact he's not an addict, he's tried to placate Sonni by hiring a sober living coach and mentor.
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But the release of anything less than the full report will not placate congressional Democrats, who want to see all of it.
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Hollywood has a long history of responding to scandal with just enough of a "solution" to placate the public and move on.
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The government agreed to subsidise diesel for 20163 days to placate the drivers, whose strike was provoked by rises in fuel prices.
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The company's AI filters help, sure, but they exist to placate advertisers who don't want their detergent ads next to jihadist videos.
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As the scandal escalated, the boss retreated into the background, only to emerge briefly enough to aggravate, rather than placate, Facebook's critics.
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The remixed version could placate viewers hankering for a version of the season that feels more like the show they originally embraced.
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In an effort to placate them, the Trump administration has doled out billions of dollars in aid to cover their financial losses.
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Most revolve around the question of whether to deter or placate Russia as it continues to prowl unpredictably to the alliance's east.
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Taurasi is 34, back with Phoenix in the W.N.B.A. after a one-summer hiatus to placate her winter-season employers in Russia.
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In fact, the habitual use of recreational drugs could potentially serve the government insofar as it might placate and subdue the people.
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Since the demonstrations, in the city of Shuangyashan, officials have scrambled to placate workers there whose wage payments have fallen months behind.
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And we must not placate ourselves, thinking that if the unruly Donald doesn't behave himself in the Oval Office, he'll be impeached.
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The Port Authority needed to placate its political masters, who wanted speed, press approval and a shining symbol of New York's rebirth.
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The moves have done little to placate nervous investors, who have kept selling risky assets at a rapid clip as panic grows.
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"No new fracking" may placate the far left but is not a winning message in Biden's hometown of Scranton or western Pennsylvania.
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"Everyone was looking to placate Trump," said Ilan Goldenberg, a former Pentagon official now at the Center for a New American Security.
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His girl's making angry demands on the other end and he's quick to jump in his pickup truck to go placate her.
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Mr. Panelo said the president initially "concocted" the story to placate a priest who wanted to hear stories of sinning teenage boys.
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I've put my emotional needs on the back burner to placate his family, but I don't want to continue making this sacrifice.
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She said that the status of women in Saudi Arabia had been used by the government over the years to placate conservatives.
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Some of my own reactions were crude and off-color, and I apologize for that, but all were simply meant to placate.
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On Wednesday, in an apparent move to placate China, Mr. Moon announced the temporary suspension of four out of six Thaad launchers.
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To forever focus on scoring political points, to please and placate the political base that helped elect him to the White House.
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Officials said that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo later called Mr. Abdullah in what appeared to be an attempt to placate him.
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Some, at the time, felt Ashe had compromised his principles to placate his best player, but there was something deeper going on.
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But he was kind of doing a tap dance, because he wanted to placate the isolationists, although he was himself an internationalist.
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The only real problem for the US administration is how to placate critics, who would regard any deal as selling out to Russia.
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And as the peace talks progressed, the government scaled back aerial crop-spraying—according to its critics, in order to placate the FARC.
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Pepsi ditched the controversial sweetener last August in a move to placate health-conscious consumers looking to cut unnatural chemicals from their diets.
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Whether such a cut will be enough for Mr Powell to stave off a recession and placate his critics remains to be seen.
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To placate voters by raising tariffs is to tackle 21st-century globalisation with tools better suited to the 20th (or even 19th) century.
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It's not a slogan to placate women of color or give them a nod while featuring the faces of their white campaign stars.
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"It's possible we could move there, and that would kind of placate my concerns over this issue," Bullard told the Wall Street Journal.
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Uber announced today that it had launched in-app tipping across the U.S., a significant move to placate its huge workforce of drivers.
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It's also designed to placate more moderate members, who are concerned about diluting or eliminating Obamacare protections for those with pre-existing conditions.
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Candidates will often make divisive statements and policy proposals to placate their electoral base, without any intention of following through with their promises.
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However, a reflexive decision to placate or ingratiate oneself to any powerful figure, even the President, may prove to be a big mistake.
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If there were any way to placate white opposition to a black athlete's protest of racial discrimination, Kaepernick would likely have found it.
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Rubio brushed back suggestions this week when asked if he was trying to placate too many elements of the party all at once.
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Al-Zubidi was able to placate refugees in Portland, but back in Iraq, he says people still think living in Oregon is dangerous.
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But the explanation that a federal judge had forced the city to allow the rally didn't placate people who gathered at City Council.
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She recoils, and he has to placate her by acknowledging that, yes, she did do the bookkeeping for a year in the 1960s.
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He tries to placate her, telling her that she must be patient and wait her turn — her time will come, in four years.
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Jackson has churned through three coaches while trying to rebuild the roster and placate Anthony, who has three years left on his contract.
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While such an action is commendable and should placate lawmakers and the public for now, it won't work as a long term solution.
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Ever since Trump announced his candidacy with a burst of anti-Mexican rhetoric, Peña Nieto has tried to placate him, with embarrassing results.
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A Canadian court on Tuesday granted bail to the executive in a move that could help placate Chinese officials angered by her arrest.
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Among other reasons, the White House needed to placate the Saudis as the administration completed a nuclear deal with Iran, Saudi Arabia's archenemy.
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Tipsters who told us about Mobike's withdrawal from APAC found the statement "vague" and saw it as a gesture to placate the public.
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The party was trying to placate people who opposed abortion at the very moment that abortion was most under threat, Ms. Merritt said.
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Such a move, meant to create businesses with greater focus, has followed a trend of industrial empires slimming themselves down to placate shareholders.
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Will he heed a plea by a local cardinal and not call them "Rohingya" to placate his hosts in the majority-Buddhist country?
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Meanwhile, alongside the arrests, Jinjiang itself was removing and self-censoring much of its queer content in an attempt to placate the government.
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It might also have reflected his desire to play down the crisis in the short term to placate markets and mitigate political damage.
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They are skittish about offending the base and quick to placate culture warriors who demonize those with traditional beliefs about sex and gender.
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But that's failed to placate the protesters, who are demanding the dissolution of parliament and a complete overhaul of the nation's political system.
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But his reasoning has even failed to placate members of his own Democratic Party, with whom the governor has had an unsettled relationship.
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Trump has taught North Korean officials that they can avoid his expert diplomats, send flattering letters, and then placate him at the summit.
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Although the movement is clearly slowing down, the people taking to the streets remain mostly dissatisfied, despite Mr. Macron's attempts to placate them.
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White entered the octagon to try to placate Nurmagomedov, who was not presented with the belt, although he was announced as the winner.
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It began with Prime Minister Theresa May's last-ditch attempt at a Brexit compromise as she offered Parliament a deal that would keep the United Kingdom in the EU's customs union—to placate the Labour Party—and that would allow for a vote on a second referendum—to placate those who want the U.K. to remain in the European Union entirely.
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Trade experts believe Trump is probably trying to placate his political base in the wake of criticism over the U.S.-China China tariff standoff.
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If cheap wine, drug store cheese, and crackers aren't enough to placate you, you might wonder how to respectfully get out of these events.
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"Bolsonaro's environmental message has been designed to placate the rural lobby and encourage support among the 'beef, bullets and bible' caucus," EIU's Wood said.
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Wuhan's mayor, Zhou Xianwang, has offered himself up as a scapegoat, offering lat month to step down to placate locals' anger at the outbreak.
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But this is unlikely to placate the Chinese: it would still give plenty of discretion to refer to third-country prices when setting duties.
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All this should placate shareholders, who have had plenty to grumble about—and whom Mr Thiam faces at the annual meeting on April 28th.
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Many in Moscow see blagoustroistvo as a thinly-veiled ploy to placate the urban middle class who protested against fraudulent elections in 2011-12.
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To placate President Donald Trump, China will try to import more from America and pay more for foreign intellectual property (IP), Mr Ding says.
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YouTube introduced paid memberships, paid chats and a new merchandising program earlier this year to placate top talent and keep up with major competitors.
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"Unless they can find a way to placate the government, someone's always going to be trying to be breaking them up," the host said.
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Some commentators suggested Netanyahu's remarks to Likud might have been a move to placate right-wingers in his cabinet rather than a concrete plan.
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Exxon, like oil and gas majors across the world, is working to placate environmentalists and governments who are concerned about pollution from fossil fuels.
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That move failed to placate protesters, who quickly gathered in the thousands in Algiers to demand a removal of the elite and wholesale reforms.
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Bensalah promised to "set a national and sovereign commission to secure fair elections" in an apparent bid to placate demonstrators demanding sweeping democratic reforms.
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Lisa ends up in the cage in the first place because she bows to social pressure (to impress her ex, to placate her sister).
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Like then-Tunisian president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, Ortega quickly attempted to placate protestors while also accusing them of being vandals and terrorists.
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To placate the anti-Federalists and ensure ratification, the Federalists promised to pass a Bill of Rights to protect individual liberty and state sovereignty.
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In a bid to placate trump, Scott proposed an interview between the president and Fox News chief political correspondent Bret Baier, The Times reported.
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The proposal failed to placate the likes of D'Alema, who is set to campaign in favor of a 'No' vote in the coming week.
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Huawei is trying to sell all its 5G patents to a Western buyer in a bid to placate Trump and dodge national security concerns.
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Owners' calls for unity are nothing but a shallow attempt to placate a workforce whose ruinous jobs reap hundreds of millions for their organizations.
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However, what this self-imposed legislative deadline doesn't do is placate any Indian American children who entered this country legally — and that is wrong.
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It also has entered into a number of agreements to sell assets from the combined company in order to placate regulators about the deal.
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But to get there, GOP leaders had to amend their bill, several times, to placate concerns by conservative and moderate members of their caucus.
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Captain Connor gets posthumous credit for the collar in order to placate the powerful interests represented by Ted Levine's marvelously angry-looking Chief Byrnes.
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To placate Turkey, Washington gave a green light to its offensive against Afrin, claiming that the Kurds in that area were not American allies.
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May, who argued tepidly to remain in the European Union during the 2016 referendum, has had to placate her more ideologically pro-Brexit colleagues.
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What followed were attempts by Google to placate the president and a mad scramble to get done what he'd said it was already doing.
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I assume the motive for retaining these two deductions is to placate various interest groups such as the real estate industry and religious institutions.
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That put Senate leaders on notice that any move to placate the Dean Hellers of the Senate might only alienate other lawmakers still further.
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UK ministers hinted on Monday that the Huawei deal would contain concessions designed to placate anger from Washington and other allies over security risks.
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To placate him we looked for a restaurant in that area, where the ministries were, the private schools, the embassies and hotels: Paraguay's rich.
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If we can remove hard currency, Kim's ability to placate the elite in the Worker's Party, state bureaucracy and military could be greatly diminished.
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In a grander sense, a Pisces' sensitivity is a double-edged sword—they often sacrifice their own authenticity to placate others' wishes and whims.
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Folks, what you are seeing is a media being bullied into bending over backward to placate the people who endlessly accuse them of bias.
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Deciding you need rehab is much different than doing it to placate a loved one or to get out of a drug charge sentence.
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John Cornyn described the difficulties of drawing up a bill that could placate conservatives in the House and unite more moderate Republicans in the Senate.
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But it also appears to want to placate critics in the open source community by emphasizing its commitment to the Open Containers Initiative (OCI) standard.
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" He sought to placate non-Jewish citizens (and critics at home and abroad) by adding "there is no problem with the Arab citizens of Israel.
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It doesn't help that the United States has suspended military exercises in the region to placate Kim, which affects our readiness to respond to threats.
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The company's executives at the time made an effort to placate privacy concerns with talk of strict on-device storage and end-to-end encryption.
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Chipotle Mexican Grill has begun looking for a new board member in hopes that it can placate investors and jump start the burrito chain's turnaround.
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For EU governments to jeopardise this boost to the economy, even to placate creaking European flag-carriers, would be an act of considerable self-harm.
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It would be possible to speculate that this new initiative is a calculated one, designed to placate evangelicals and distract from the latest Daniels news.
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The remainder of the billionaire's other statements did not go over very well with the audience of journalists he seemed to be trying to placate.
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After military uprisings against the democratic government of Raúl Alfonsín in the late 1980s, the government introduced amnesty laws and pardons to placate the army.
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But BC's minority New Democratic government is equally determined to placate the Greens who prop it up by honouring a pledge to block the pipeline.
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The gesture failed to placate protesters, who gathered in Algiers shortly afterwards in the thousands to demand a removal of the elite and sweeping reforms.
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A senior source with direct knowledge of the government's position told Reuters bureaucrats are minded to impose stricter rules on casinos to placate public opposition.
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Louisa Driss, a political science professor at Algiers University, said Salah's announcement would not placate protesters, and the elite would try to preserve its interests.
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Amy doesn't want to be in that bed — or that state — so it's difficult to watch her try to placate someone she's so incompatible with.
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Norquist argues this won't placate Democrats — who inevitably will charge that Trump's tax overhaul is just designed to help the rich — but will alienate conservatives.
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That is unlikely to be enough to placate the left, though: Elizabeth Warren, a Democratic senator, dismissed the paper as "an agenda for creating poverty".
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That would explain why the leadership has alternated between trying to placate its hardline right and more moderate members from swing districts, with no success.
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It may placate voters for the primary, but would surely damage her in a general election against President Donald Trump, if she gets that far.
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Granted, she owns up to her errors, including a naive faith in the power of wonkish ideas to placate angry voters, and some embarrassing bloopers.
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Yet in the classroom and abroad, Nega argued that Ethiopia's transformation was a mirage, created to placate Western observers troubled by the lack of democracy.
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A Canadian court granted bail on Tuesday to Huawei's chief financial officer in a move that could help placate Chinese officials angered by her arrest.
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Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi has visited London and met with the regulators to try and placate concerns, but the agency has not changed its stance.
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Mulroney added that Ottawa should allow the extradition process to play out and resist intervening to placate China as it could undermine Canada's international credibility.
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Presumably to placate their Austinite hosts, Delos—or rather, HBO—built a "brand activation" to outdo even 2013's six-story tweet-powered Doritos machine.
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To placate conservatives, McConnell has agreed to use a different formula than the House for indexing Medicaid to inflation, which could lower the bill's costs.
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In trying to forge a governing coalition, Ms. Merkel will have to reconcile contradictory policies among potential partners and placate critics within her own party.
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She failed because, rather than seeking cross-party consensus, she tried to placate her own hard right and prevent voters from abandoning the party — again.
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But that concession has not been enough to placate some Republicans whose constituents make heavy use of the existing deduction for state and local taxes.
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Word of the Day : cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of _________ The word placate has appeared in 101 articles on NYTimes.
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The idea is to placate insurers who were alarmed when the bill was released on Thursday without any means to nudge people into the market.
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Then, King Mohammed VI was quick to respond, promising a more democratic Constitution and raising the salaries of public officials, measures that helped placate Moroccans.
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However, if Disney's acquisition of the Fox assets go through, that could lessen the Murdoch family's clout in the U.K. and possibly placate the regulator.
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But they have targeted a sector that is inclined to placate or back off instead of questioning the use of public authority in this way.
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Lam was trying to placate Hong Kongers concerned about being subject to China's opaque legal system, which is controlled by the ruling Communist Party. Mrs.
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Retailers like L.L.Bean, Lands&apos End, IKEA, and Nordstrom placate unhappy customers by letting them return items long after the normal 30‑day grace period.
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It would be a serious loss if it was forced to retreat from its mission in order to placate the authoritarian voices of Russian nationalism.
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Into this May arrived with little more than platitudes and no more of a plan to placate her enemies or political partners in the north.
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It was a bill of far-reaching consequence stitched together behind closed doors, with a flurry of last-minute deals struck only to placate holdouts.
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To placate concerns among some member states that Mr. Barnier will be too inflexible, the leaders also agreed to a structure to monitor those discussions.
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" The Rainbow Alliance of Bermuda's statement said the domestic partnership act creates a "watered down" version of rights and exists to "placate conservative religious lobbyists.
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Indeed, the Iranian people, and in particular the younger generation, were quite distraught over the decades-long U.S. policy of trying to placate their oppressors.
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Trump is doing this to placate the very narrow and narrow-minded anti-immigrant nationalist core of his base because he is so weak otherwise.
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Speaking at an American Economic Association event with former Fed chiefs Janet Yellen and Ben Bernanke on Friday, Powell sought to placate jittery financial markets.
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This is also likely an irritant to Abe, who's tried very hard to flatter and placate Trump to avoid just these kinds of international dustups.
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The NFL continually ignoring the very precise language of their players in order to placate its owners, a group of 32 economic vampires, disrespects the flag.
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Talk of a Dutch Grand Prix, may also help to placate those who fear that European cities are becoming less important to Formula One's race calendar.
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They also have to act fast -- they need to update the judge in the lawsuit Tuesday — and figure out how to placate insurers and skeptical conservatives.
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Since January, the government has released thousands of dissidents to placate simmering anger, but it re-introduced a state of emergency the day after Hailemariam resigned.
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I refuse to believe that the name is not the product of extensive poll testing to gaslight those who want Universal Healthcare and placate the skeptics.
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Modi needs to placate India's 50 million cane growers, whose numbers make them an influential political lobby, to smooth his route back to power next year.
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Many analysts were skeptical of the deal, however, saying that the announcement wasyet another confidence trick or "ruse" to placate markets and support the oil price.
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But if any of their moves are done just to placate Trump, then they are building foundations that will crumble under the weight of forced motivations.
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None of this did anything to placate the Karni Sena, whose members attacked movie theatres and ransacked a school which played a song from the film.
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Fuck you, because for 19 years, I lived life as a Latina woman just to placate people like you and your soulless "children of God" administration.
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Elsewhere, Hillary Clinton will have to decide whether to maintain her half-step in Sanders' direction or shift further to placate the party rank-and-file.
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It doesn't seek to inform; it seeks to placate, to reassure viewers that they are okay and that everything else about white America is okay too.
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This may sufficiently placate the unions to secure for Mr Corbyn the votes he needs to overturn existing Labour policy at the party conference in September.
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To placate the country's moggy lovers, cats are mostly off the list at the moment, though feral felines living on public land will be legitimate targets.
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The easy and popular fixes the Kremlin used in the past to resuscitate the economy — or at least to placate the public — have all been exhausted.
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Why bother with the unpopularity of raising taxes or the need to placate bond markets when a friendly central bank can fund all your spending promises?
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The move would undermine the developing Israeli-Sunni Arab alignment and could pressure Arab governments to craft a more forceful response to placate the Arab street.
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The year that "Internet" came out, Glover appeared in two episodes of HBO's "Girls"—cast, he suspected, to placate critics of the show's lily-white sensibility.
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He told me that he missed being at the company and regretted rushing to make layoffs and other changes in an attempt to placate Singer's fund.
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Haley would not sit by idly while the GOP let it happen, and the GOP would do everything it could to placate its brightest future star.
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That move should help placate any employees who previously had an opportunity to accept a generous severance but decided to stay on board with the company.
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He awkwardly tried to reconcile the notion of "America First" with a global outreach and planetary humanism designed to appease and placate his largely international audience.
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Rising powers such as China are not likely to be as compliant now, and even allies in Europe seem to feel less obliged to placate America.
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After three weeks of rising frustration, there was scant indication Philippe's measures would placate the "yellow vests", who themselves are struggling to find a unified position.
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One such plan, ultimately abandoned, was an attempt to claw back $15.4 billion in domestic spending programs to placate angry members of the House Freedom Caucus.
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In the Oval Office that March afternoon, a 30-minute meeting extended to more than two hours as Mr. Trump's team tried desperately to placate him.
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The president took the gamble, hoping to placate liberals in Congress and antiwar protesters, who were already planning a huge rally in Washington for that October.
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This could result in Republicans trying to push through unpopular legislation, like health care reform, in an attempt to woo donors and placate the GOP base.
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At 26, Nick Jonas is already 19 years into his show-business career, and was able to placate the antsy press corps with his practiced charm.
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U.S. farmers, in particular, were hurt by the trade war, with the Trump administration announcing billions of dollars in subsidies in an effort to placate them.
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"These rules were meant to placate some bureaucrat in an ivory tower in Washington, D.C.," said John M. Barrett, chief executive of Citrus Bank in Tampa.
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He hates the politicking side of his job: perhaps he reckons a KPK at heel will make it easier to placate demanding parties in his coalition.
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To placate the authorities over unlicensed properties, Oyo managers also gave the police and other government officials free rooms on request, current and former employees said.
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But it is throwing in a freebie to help placate early adopters: a second Buddy Pass, which should be waiting in Stadia Founder's inboxes right now.
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Trump has emphasized elements of deal in an effort to placate his agricultural base, emphasizing China's commitment to buy more agricultural goods than it had before.
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Should its incoming prime minister placate ethnic tensions along party lines — leading to the lifting of the state of emergency within six months — this could continue.
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Political success in Thailand depends on being able to placate the military and royalist elite, said Joshua Kurlantzick of the U.S.-based Council on Foreign Relations.
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Merkel is hoping a deal secured in Brussels earlier this week will placate her Bavarian allies, who are demanding a significant hardening of Germany's immigration policy.
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"They don't want to look like they've gone across the Pacific offering concessions to placate Trump, and then a few weeks later escalation resumes," he said.
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Wal-Mart and Target made Toys R Us less of a destination and gave parents a way to placate their kids while also doing their own shopping.
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With neither a war to justify his repressive dictatorship, nor any promise of reforms to placate long-suffering citizens, Issaias's grip on power seems to be weakening.
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"He will have to make some adjustments to the accord, if only to placate Uribe and other hard-liners and avoid being labeled a traitor," Shifter said.
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The possibility of a second opening gives Trump a chance to placate conservative insiders jockeying for their favorite candidates, including GOP senators rooting for home-state jurists.
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French President Emmanuel Macron will address the country on Monday as he seeks to placate "yellow vest" anti-government protesters who wreaked havoc in Paris this weekend.
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Earlier this month, Infosys appointed independent director Ravi Venkatesan as its co-chair, in a move seen as an attempt to placate its founders and former executives.
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It may also be a way to placate his festering anger at reports that showed Barack Obama's inaugural crowd in 2008 to be larger than his own.
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It's classic move-fast Facebook — placate one group of vocal critics, even if it puts a less vocal group at risk — and I worry about the consequences.
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It suggested he had betrayed some of his previous positions on issues from same-sex marriage to climate change in order to placate conservatives in his party.
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His new stance failed to placate hundreds of thousands of Algerians who have taken to the streets for nearly five weeks to demand that Bouteflika step down.
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In California this week, a loosened President Barack Obama left few Republicans spared in a fierce reproach of the party he now has little reason to placate.
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University administrators, whose job it is to promote harmony and diversity on campus, often find the easiest way to do so is to placate the intolerant fifth.
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The late Roh was from a liberal party that rivaled the conservative predecessor to Park's conservative Saenuri Party, and naming Kim appears intended to placate the opposition.
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By a process of elimination, China now backs "pressure that will placate the Americans without being strong enough to [make the Kim regime] collapse," says the official.
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Guajardo said there would be no concessions made in the NAFTA negotiations to placate Trump on steel and aluminum, while Freeland said the two issues were separate.
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But some analysts said it may have instead been to placate an unhappy public after measures that rolled back financial benefits and removed energy and utilities subsidies.
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A divestment of the unit is part of an effort to placate investors after the Dutch paintmaker rejected a takeover offer from rival PPG Industries last year.
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He has a hugely nuanced understanding of how and when to use the media to help him and when to bash the media to placate his supporters.
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In a bid to placate payers, patients and politicians in the all-important U.S. market, several companies - most recently Sanofi - have pledged to limit price rises there.
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To placate bankers who wanted the government to stay out of their business, banks would themselves capitalise each regional Fed and appoint two-thirds of its directors.
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Bensalah promised to "set a national and sovereign commission to secure fair elections" in an apparent bid to placate demonstrators demanding sweeping democratic reforms and economic opportunities.
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But if the United States joins the World Tourism Organization, that action will do nothing to reverse this trend nor is it likely to placate the industry.
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The payments, which follow pressure from Australia's competition watchdog, are the latest move to placate a growing number of internet users disappointed by the government-built network.
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When she gave Ratner her number to try to placate him, Ratner's assistant caller her incessantly for the next six months to try to arrange a date.
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The increased support for low-income Americans is intended to placate moderate Republicans who are concerned about phasing out ObamaCare's generous federal assistance for expanded Medicaid enrollment.
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For Baghdad, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's harsh reaction was seen as an attempt to placate Shiite hard-liners demanding a severe response to the Kurdish provocation.
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I had also been deep into my feelings of guilt as I once again tried to placate my four children with electronics so that I could work.
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Mr. López Obrador also sought a way to placate Mr. Trump over migration — an issue that Mr. Trump has made a centerpiece of his appeal to supporters.
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Akzo is also seeking to sell its chemicals division, representing a third of profits, in order to fund an extraordinary dividend and share buyback to placate investors.
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Trying to placate both antiwar members of Congress and his generals, who wanted a wider war, Johnson tried to find a middle ground when there was none.
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The move appears to be a calculated attempt by Iran to placate its hardliners while avoiding actions that would cause the crisis to spiral out of control.
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This ought to placate President Donald Trump, who has criticized Harley for moving some production to new markets that its want to open up, especially in Asia.
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"To keep the connectedness of the partnership, that spouse really needs to be open around what their limitations are, rather than trying to placate everyone," DeGeare says.
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Premier Li visited Wuhan on Monday to inspect the situation on the ground and placate the public amid growing criticism of the government's handling of the disaster.
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"The 500,000 barrels is sort of a clever way for the Saudis to placate Trump too," said John Kilduff, founding partner at energy hedge fund Again Capital.
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If a diminished U.S. contingent was intended to placate Pyongyang, there would be a key reason why Trump's team would prefer to keep that strategy under wraps.
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The willingness of rank-and-file Republicans to abandon any sense of principle in order to placate Trump is a mistake, and it will have long-term consequences.
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The move would not sufficiently placate the large segment of the European electorate which opposes Turkey's EU candidate status, but Brussels will have at least salvaged some credibility.
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Losing the popular vote means nothing to Trump, and neither does the idea of using his precious cabinet picks to placate those whose political sensitivities are currently wounded.
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But it happened just as Popular Force was threatening to impeach Mr Kuczynski, so most Peruvians concluded that he freed the former president to placate Mr Fujimori's daughter.
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Clinton, on the other hand, must placate the most passionate, enthusiastic, ideological elements of the Democratic Party—many of whom have spent months directing their passion against her.
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But Bouteflika's April 2 exit failed to placate many Algerians who want to topple the entire elite that have dominated the country since independence from France in 1962.
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To have any chance of defeating him, Mr Haddad, a former mayor of São Paulo and education minister, must placate those voters while retaining the PT's core supporters.
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But just as the reforms package offered earlier in the week didn't placate the protesters, Hariri's resignation might not be enough to keep people out of the streets.
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And very often, the discrimination leads people to change their behaviors in a way to placate the homophobic, transphobic, and otherwise bigoted attitudes behind day-to-day discrimination.
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After all, David Cameron only pledged a referendum on Brexit in January 2013 as a gambit - ill-judged, it now seems - to placate restive Eurosceptics within his party.
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After Homer falls victim to a workplace injury, Mr. Burns attempts to placate him with tickets to his luxury box at Springfield's Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific Arena.
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The 139-year-old exchange, the only one in Europe still maintaining open outcry trading, has been seeking to placate members, especially brokers, worried about losing lucrative business.
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You can see why Trump did it; he wanted to placate McConnell because he needs the majority leader on his side for the future legislative fights to come.
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His emphasis that the Friday indictments contained neither proof of collusion nor proof that Russia's effects affected the election's outcome might help to placate Trump to some degree.
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"China will placate the U.S., but how we get there is very complicated and the market has to digest that," said Salvatore Ruscitti, equity specialist at MRB Partners.
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Macron will make a televised address at 1900 GMT as he seeks to placate protesters, whose revolt poses his biggest challenge since assuming the presidency 18 months ago.
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But his government has also sought to placate workers, putting pressure on businesses to settle disputes and making billions of dollars available for welfare payments and retraining programs.
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Macron's concessions so far, such as scrapping the controversial fuel tax hike last week, have failed to placate the movement, which draws supports from across the political spectrum.
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National leaders in Europe and North America are scrambling to placate energized, often unruly groups of people demanding change and a more generous share of the economic spoils.
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Sinclair Broadcast Group, the largest local television operator in the United States, tried to placate federal regulators on Wednesday regarding its proposal to buy a rival TV group.
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But more immediately, Goodell needs to placate owners who want a more streamlined — and downsized — league headquarters that focuses more heavily on on-field issues and creating revenue.
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Suddenly, we were living in a climate when one no longer had to placate the cousin who might have felt uncomfortable around "the gays" at the family soiree.
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Over the summer, the Saudis and other producers, who had been restraining output since 2017, opened up the taps, aiming to ease consumers' worries and placate Mr. Trump.
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Peep One feels especially underwritten as she explains her desire to be a role model for aspiring female hip-hop producers and tries to placate the two men.
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Why it matters: The move seems designed to placate Beijing, which has required that any employees involved in the protests be removed from flights to the Chinese mainland.
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He warned that Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi had to placate an army with a history of pushing aside civilian leaders under the pretext of defending national sovereignty.
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The prime minister has failed to offer concessions — an increase in salaries, a basic wage for poorer families and interest-free housing credit programs — that could placate them.
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But Boeing is being conservative here, Ms. Kitroeff writes, citing three people familiar with the matter, to placate airline customers who have been annoyed with previous missed deadlines.
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I haven't heard it in person, but in the sample videos it seems at the same time loud enough to alert pedestrians, but tranquil enough to placate others.
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Collections of essays and reviews are the neglected stepchildren of book publishing, generally undertaken to please or placate an author rather than as sales-worthy ventures in themselves.
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Rather than attempt to address big-picture environmental concerns, those who prepare the statements now struggle to placate litigious environmental attorneys by cramming them with every minute detail.
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To try to placate his moderate Republican supporters, whose votes he will again need next year, the senator is trying, as he always does, to find common ground.
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By promising a free vote on the law's repeal, she will placate the hunt enthusiasts, without tethering herself to an outcome that is far from a foregone conclusion.
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U.S. drugmaker AbbVie's $63 billion tie-up with Allergan is getting help from Nestle and AstraZeneca buying up products the Irish-domiciled company is shedding to placate regulators.
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The eventual primary winner in 2020 is probably someone who is able to placate the leftward movement of the party without being seen as outside the mainstream. 4.
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The president has put the world on notice that America will no longer pretend that Jerusalem is not Israel's capital just to placate the Palestinians and their supporters.
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President Trump and his representatives are using racial stereotypes to further their political agenda and placate their supporters on immigration, who according to studies, likely harbor racist views.
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With a freshman class growing more anxious by the day, Pelosi summoned Trumka to the Hill in mid-November to placate members who were pushing for a vote.
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But Warren also failed to placate anyone by taking a half-step back, announcing she would not try to enact her plan before her third year in office.
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Vacating the party leadership is seen by some as a move to placate those within her party that might have sought to oust Merkel before her fourth term ends.
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Founder Mark Zuckerberg's belated apology on Wednesday, in which he explained how information on 50 million users ended up at consultancy Cambridge Analytica, is unlikely to placate unhappy advertisers.
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Mr Dujovne resigned on August 17th after Mr Macri scrapped VAT on staple foods, increased hand-outs and temporarily froze petrol prices in a desperate effort to placate Argentines.
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In this instance, we learn that the White Locust wants to destroy Dinétah in a plot to both placate his ego and sense of revenge for his childhood trauma.
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McKenzie said he thinks Sanders's choice to play hard-to-get may force the Democratic Party to move to the left to placate the Vermont senator's passionate progressive base.
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"If that's really the case, and not a desperate attempt to placate the far-right, Facebook should follow Twitter's lead and stop running political ads on its site altogether."
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The move failed to placate hundreds of thousands of Algerians who have taken to the streets for nearly five weeks to demand that Bouteflika quit along with his allies.
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Although the pots and friezes describe warfare and human sacrifice, archaeologists now believe these were rituals to placate the deities of a people acutely vulnerable to drought and flood.
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The hearings did not placate Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, who on Thursday said he would continue to call for a Royal Commission to undertake an investigation into bank activities.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron will address the country on Monday as he seeks to placate "yellow vest" anti-government protesters who wreaked havoc in Paris this weekend.
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They&aposll give -- they&aposll give occasional mentions of these things that you mentioned, these policies to placate voters, but going back to an original question you have here.
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How do we communicate what's in the best interests of Americans in a way that doesn't alienate or divide and at the same time doesn't accept or placate racism?
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Meanwhile, Jolla was quickly burning through its remaining investor cash and trying to placate its crowdfunding backers who were clamoring for a refund on the tablets that never materialized.
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But his calls faced a tough reality check at EU headquarters in Brussels where there is no appetite for loosening fiscal discipline to placate eurosceptic populists in member states.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia has forced the foreign owners of 15 illegally bought properties to sell, as the government tries to placate voters unhappy about a lack of affordable housing.
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Workers fear being displaced not just by immigrants but by lower-paid employees in Asia; anti-austerity campaigners resent the spending cuts needed to placate markets (or overseas creditors).
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Republican senators this week sought to craft a workaround proposal that would placate concerned members and avoid an embarrassing rejection of the president's order, but talks collapsed on Wednesday.
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But Ukraine has tried to push through legislation before in attempts to placate IMF demands and unlock funds, only to slip in items that went against the lender's rules.
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Adidas launched its previous share buyback, for up to 1.5 billion euros in 2014, when the company was trying to placate angry investors after a string of profit warnings.
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For Alma, it's a roller-coaster existence of ups and downs, one that tests her resolve as she seeks to placate him and, on occasion, stand up for herself.
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Trump got to throw his temper tantrum, while White House staff and members of Congress imagine that they are clever enough to placate him without quite killing the deal.
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But it's also likely a way for the company to placate governments, especially to keep potential data disclosure regulations at bay, while retaining control over what information it divulges.
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Especially in undemocratic systems, scheduled leadership changes can also placate the people, by allowing a new leader to adjust policies in order to correct a predecessor's mistakes or overreach.
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Feeling remorseful about what he had done, the dead ruler tells Nichizō to return to the land of the living and erect a shrine to placate Michizane's angry spirit.
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Republicans could continue to placate their wealthy donors with fiscally conservative policies because they could misdirect blame onto Washington Democrats and their big-government agenda for any stagnating wages.
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Ms. Pelosi's "cover-up" allegation, made immediately after a caucus meeting, was explicitly intended to placate restive elements of her caucus in an attempt to head off a revolt.
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North Korea has made some moves to placate Washington, suspending its nuclear and missile tests, demolishing its underground nuclear test site and tearing down a missile engine test site.
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American-Jewish liberals may have agonised over Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, but many saw a beleaguered country doing its best to placate an enemy bent on its destruction.
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Over time, the evidence grew more irrefutable that by abandoning gun control, Democrats were trying to placate voters they had already lost, while slighting the voters they were attracting.
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To placate NATO ally Turkey, the U.S. was already working on establishing a safe zone along the border, and the SDF had removed their defenses from near the border.
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Even now, German representatives on the European Central Bank's governing board are demanding higher interest rates to placate irate German savers who are seeing no return on their money.
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He is perhaps most famous as the source of a widely quoted expression of panic within Volkswagen as it became increasingly difficult to figure out ways to placate regulators.
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And a new cost sharing arrangement established last week is intended to placate the US President and give him something to crow about before he even arrives, analysts say.
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The Trump administration appears to be moving toward a deal to placate ethanol interests who have blamed the president's deregulatory push for forcing the closing of 22019 ethanol plants.
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China: In an effort to placate President Trump and end a trade war with the U.S., China has offered real concessions — alongside nebulous promises that may not be enough.
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As Meadows and other Freedom Caucus members such as Representative Jim Jordan negotiated with Trump, more and more right-wing amendments were added to the bill to placate conservatives.
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Lincoln worked behind the scenes to placate the slave states without yielding on the pledge on which he had been elected: to stop the spread of slavery into the territories.
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Even on routine matters, with no voters to placate and total control of Chinese media, they can frustrate other governments by leaving them waiting weeks or months for a response.
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But Bouteflika's April 2 exit failed to placate many Algerians who want to topple the entire, largely elderly elite that have dominated the country since independence from France in 1962.
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Recognizing that maintaining the business operations is their utmost priority, Gilberto tells Miguel to placate Orlando Henao (Julian Arango) of the North Valley cartel, which is riled from Gilberto's arrest.
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That's some pretty incredible leverage, and it helps explain why Uber is bending over backward to placate cities by supporting major policy shifts like congestion pricing and driver wage increases.
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Morningstar analyst Ivan Su said he believed Cathay had done enough to prevent it from being cut off from Chinese airspace, but possibly not enough to placate all Chinese travellers.
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But the roadster was a one-off stunt, sent up purely as a show of dominance — or a way to placate shareholders and those still waiting on their personal cars.
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The government tried to placate the Brexiteers by insisting early in the debate that, in the absence of a deal, Britain would indeed leave with no deal on March 29th.
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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced this week that the U.S. would grant tariff exceptions on steel products to firms in Japan, but that is unlikely to be placate Japanese officials.
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The government should assume USPS's legacy pension and health-care deficits, to make it more attractive to investors, and also placate workers by giving them shares in the new company.
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Cheap car repairs, however, are unlikely to placate the growing contingent of gig workers angry about falling wages amid gangbusters IPOs for two of the biggest platforms in the field.
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Lynas last week unveiled detailed expansion spending plans of A$500 million ($347 million) designed to boost production and placate Malaysian regulators' concerns about the waste disposal at its plant.
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Companies including Nestle have taken differing positions from the GMA on some of those issues, wanting to placate consumers who say they want more transparency and information about supply chains.
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Evernote recently made passcode locking a free feature, but that likely won't placate the Basic users accustomed to accessing their notes on a variety of devices at the same time.
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South Africa, which receives huge amounts of support from China, was suspected of trying to placate Beijing, which views the Dalai Lama's calls for more autonomy for Tibet as villainous.
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That was before the Senate majority leader stepped on a figurative grenade and signaled that he was ready to throw granny from a moving train to placate the donor gods.
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The TPP provides up to eight years as part of an agreement to placate countries like Australia that said longer terms would push up drug prices and make many unaffordable.
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L) said it will buy back 200 million pounds($248.74 million) of its shares, as it tries to placate shareholders following the collapse of its merger with Deutsche Boerse (DB1Gn.DE).
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He irritated Churchill, in particular, with his refusal to placate Roosevelt, acting as if he were in command of a major army instead of a few borrowed rooms in Mayfair.
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Politicians recognize that Catalan society is deeply divided by the question of independence and that the issue is not easy to resolve in a way that can placate both camps.
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Imagine what Pyongyang, after a peace declaration with Washington, could do to the risk-averse Seoul whose default position is to pay and placate Pyongyang in return for de-escalation.
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That's the kind of "sorry" we're getting from tech giants — an attempt to quell bad PR and placate the afflicted, often without the systemic change necessary to prevent repeated problems.
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Messages designed to placate audiences and deny injustices are likely to backfire, while those that acknowledge legitimate aspirations and offer or model non-violent options are more likely to succeed.
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"There are so many aspects of how companies deal with the public that obfuscates what actually goes on and so many attempts to placate people using jargon," Professor Turow said.
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" That did little to placate Nigel Dodds, the deputy leader of the D.U.P., who wrote on Twitter that "rather than reassure us, the Tusk and Juncker letter bolsters our concerns.
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If Trump does get what he wants, and China does make some concession on its market practices to placate him, it won't necessarily be a big win for American workers.
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"Literature does not exist only to provoke feelings of happiness or to placate us with its pleasure; art should also challenge and perturb us," writes Anakana Schofield at the Guardian.
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Professor Swers noted that women elected from swing districts will have incentives to embrace moderation and strike compromises to keep their seats and to placate voters disillusioned with congressional paralysis.
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But the point is clear: This is a President who, at best, uses racialized language and stereotypes to placate supporters and, at worst, holds what are racist and xenophobic views.
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Getting rid of targeted ads on children's content could hit Google's bottom line – but this solution would be far less expensive than other potential remedies that aim to placate regulators.
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Instead, Biden should stick to his plan to placate the progressive left with Kamala Harris and his refusal to fully tack to the left on health care and climate change.
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This is as it should be: Voters should choose a candidate who excites them, who promises a brighter future—not one engineered to placate a lost gang of middling naysayers.
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House Democratic immigration reformers are vowing to continue pressing the Obama administration on deportations after a meeting with Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson that apparently failed to placate their concerns.
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United has tried to placate shareholders, recently doubling its forecast for stock buybacks in the first quarter to $1.5 billion, and expanding its board by three new directors last Monday.
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Hedge funds struggled to outperform in 2016 amid a volatile market backdrop and as stock markets rose, with some funds closing and others having to cut fees to placate investors.
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Republicans signaled this week that healthcare reform is not dead, but it's unclear what changes could be made to placate both sides and find enough support to pass a plan.
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As the company hunts for a new CEO to replace outgoing Jean-Marc Janaillac, interim non-executive chairwoman Anne-Marie Couderc had sought to placate the unions earlier on Friday.
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Concessions made after a first version was blocked did not placate critics, who argue that it still imposes a de facto religious test on travelers from six predominantly Muslim countries.
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James Mattis -- scamper around to placate the principal actor, like acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan did when he shot up to hand Trump that map in the Oval Office.
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Israeli analysts said the sides had to find a solution that would not be seen as rewarding violence, from Israel's perspective, but would placate the outraged Jordanian and Palestinian publics.
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The climax of the opera comes with Orfeo's hypnotic song when he attempts to placate Charon, the boatman at the river to the underworld, and pleads for permission to cross.
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Their staffs would no longer face the constant temptation of wanting to placate every special interest for fear of not upsetting anyone who might want to hire them one day.
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Ultimately, misreported deaths—whether they're done unintentionally or to placate a family—and vague death certificates lead to distorted data that ends up in public health officials or lawmakers' hands.
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Those calls have emboldened lawmakers who seek to limit the Fed's powers and are prompting some current and former Fed officials to call for steps to placate the bank's harshest critics.
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December's historical seasonal trend bottomed Friday, the Fed is probably looking to placate irritated markets with its Wednesday decision and hedge funds should be done purging unwanted equity risk by now.
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As such, the coming crackdown could alienate not just cosmopolitans—a group likely to grow, given young Britons' relaxed stance on immigration—but also those nativists it is meant to placate.
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Those who sympathize with the protesters face Chinese fury and financial backlash; those who try to placate China draw accusations of cowardice from protest supporters in the United States and elsewhere.
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It's possible, however, that the tool is an attempt to placate cities who've seen a decline in public transport use just as ride-hailing firms like Uber and Lyft have grown.
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They could be so desperate to avoid disaster that they flatter and placate him, leaving Trump to assume he's now emperor of the West, free to make whatever deals he pleases.
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Last week, we reported additional information about the delays, including a purported letter from DJI to a dealer, noting that the initial surge of shipments was largely done to placate users.
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Ignoring evidence that diesel exhaust is carcinogenic, and keen to placate the truckers and farmers who use it most, the government has maintained a steep price differential: petrol costs 30% more.
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The Turkish leader, whose image in Western capitals has taken a battering over the past decade, appears increasingly eager to placate foreign critics, especially with the Turkish economy now facing recession.
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But if the game changes just to appease and placate the critics at every turn in hopes that the people who help shape public opinion stop complaining, it's a losing battle.
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And more and more, the "establishment" wing is trading its few remaining principles of decency in order to placate the angry voters it created by decades of white-hot resentment rhetoric.
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"More than $10 billion of other top priorities that the military and their families have requested over the last several years is on the chopping block to placate the president," Sens.
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One aide suggested that bishops should not spend so much time "trying to placate people and keep them in the boat, without ever getting the oars out and starting to row".
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This will placate insurers, who were distraught by Trump's refusal to commit to continue making these payments, leading many carriers to hike rates or drop out of the exchanges for 2018.
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Those changes were intended to placate Germany, whose departing finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, repeatedly argued that sharing risks meant richer German banks would prop up weaker banks in other EU countries.
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If Robert Mueller has been looking for a possible motive that explains the President leaning over backwards to placate Putin at key points in the presidency, he might have found one.
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Coffee giant Starbucks has bolstered its loyalty program and maintained steady same-store sales growth, but it still hasn't been able to grow at a fast enough pace to placate investors.
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But Wen's impulse to frame abortion as a simple medical procedure, divorced from larger moral or political realities, did not resonate with supporters—and it certainly didn't placate Planned Parenthood's adversaries.
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A week ago, Cramer was trying to placate investors' fears about a political crisis in Italy, which sent global markets reeling and resulted in the appointment of a new prime minister.
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What explains Trump's willingness to purposely poke his activist base in the eye -- particularly after he spent his first seven months in office seemingly looking to placate them at every turn?
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That could lead to his government approving specific policies to placate Trump or perhaps covertly acting to ensure that the Trump Organization secures favorable business deals in Panama in the future.
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A Canadian court on Tuesday granted Meng bail while she awaits a hearing for extradition to the United States, a move that could help placate Chinese officials angered by her arrest.
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But American officials aren't convinced, pointing to past actions Pakistan has taken against terrorist groups to placate the international community, only to later allow them to raise money and preach hatred.
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Meanwhile, the two most popular performers left standing, Ambrose and former UFC champion Brock Lesnar, are paired with one another in what feels like WWE's annual attempt to placate hardcore fans.
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Experts say Beijing's relative silence may be an attempt to placate both Kim Jong-un of North Korea and President Trump, as well as to prevent the Chinese public from panicking.
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Just look at the National Basketball Association's awkward attempts to placate China after a Houston Rockets executive dared to post a Twitter message (quickly deleted) expressing support for Hong Kong protesters.
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This month Google removed the app from its online store, saying it violated its policies related to sensitive events, but critics said the company might have been acting to placate China.
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The Trump presidency is forcing retailers to rethink their relationships with Trump product lines, weighing how well they sell and what actions will anger or placate the largest number of customers.
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His theory, he said, is that Mr. Trump, who is surrounded by aides who work hard to placate him, reacted positively when Mr. Cummings spoke to him frankly and without fear.
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However, the regime's talk of compromise did little to placate voter frustrations and was met with ridicule, says Stephen McInerney, executive director for the Washington-based Project on Middle East Democracy.
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The bakery's efforts to make peace failed to placate Beijing and have instead angered their customers in Taiwan, where some angry citizens have accused it of "kowtowing" to the Chinese government.
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The two aides — Katrina Pierson and Lynne Patton — have since claimed they were merely attempting to placate Manigault Newman, who they say was "obsessed" with the alleged recording of the president.
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Either way, with Tenney, Twitch has to decide whether it's more important to enforce its rules — which, theoretically, apply to everyone — or to placate its biggest streamers when they screw up.
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Some senior aides warned Trump after the last two shootings that anything he does on gun control won't be enough to placate his critics, and could instead cost him among supporters.
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You would placate a vocal minority that includes some certified hate groups and far-right activists who are truly out of step with most Americans and many Republicans across the country.
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The danger comes when we allow identity politics to placate social-justice concerns without fully addressing elite impunity for an exploitative, immoral economy that also happens to be wrecking the planet.
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Combined with reports of erratic behavior by its eccentric CEO, Neumann, the IPO plans hit a wall and initial measures to placate potential investors weren't enough to save the public offering.
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Affirmative action has now eroded into terms and initiatives broadly termed "diversity and inclusion," terms that continue to placate and promote white normativity, and worse, silence discussions of race and whiteness.
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AFL-CIO leaders have attempted to placate dissenting union members by emphasizing that labor will acquire a data operation built for the long term that is focused entirely on labor issues.
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Analysts believe the administration is likely to extend the waivers to the remaining five importers to placate top buyers China and India and to decrease the chance of higher oil prices.
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To the contrary, they believed that any manumission plan had to placate property rights that were buttressed by the Fifth Amendment, which required "just compensation" for government seizure of private assets.
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However, a new draft of the resolution, seen by Reuters, has been watered down significantly in a bid to placate Russia and China, who were set to veto the original proposal.
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Yet, Zoe doesn't tell Kevin about her past trauma to placate him, live up to his relationship demands, or due to the fact that she's falling right back in love with Kevin.
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Merchants of Doubt follows a group of high-level scientists and advisers who have purposefully misled the public, denying evidence of climate change in an effort to placate corporate and political interests.
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Those who sympathize with the protesters face Chinese fury and financial backlash while those who try to placate China draw accusations of cowardice from protest supporters in the United States and elsewhere.
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The "villagers disguised themselves in costumes made of animal skins to drive away phantom visitors; banquet tables were prepared and edible offerings were out to placate unwelcome spirits," states The History Channel.
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Old Mutual announced a 2 billion rand ($139 million) share buyback in March in a bid to placate shareholders following an almost one-third drop in the share price after its listing.
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To placate opponents, the conservative-led coalition government adopted a separate statement on ratification, saying the treaty will not change Croatia's legal definition of marriage as a union between man and woman.
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Now, it's going to need to do everything in its power to placate the U.S. government and try to convince politicians—and an increasingly skeptical public—that it will handle the situation.
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Returning the GOP to its Reagan-era roots as the party for small donors might even placate some of the stalwarts who have watched in anguish as Trump tears the GOP apart.
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But rather than trying to placate the Americans by ending his support for terrorist groups or his alliance with Iran, he instead waited for the United States to exhaust itself in Iraq.
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Turnbull this week sought to placate conservative anger by stripping requirements for reducing greenhouse emissions from his centerpiece energy policy but the influential right-wing government lawmakers remain opposed to the policy.
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Spotify is hoping that this deal with the NMPA will placate most of the complaints from publishers and songwriters, and it can move on from those lawsuits, and they may be right.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's nod to state-owned companies to start buying U.S. soybeans again to help placate its top trading partner may turn into a test of Beijing's will over market forces.
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Mullah Mansour was reported to have raised more than $20 million during that meeting, as well as an allotment of pickup trucks that he then dished out to placate angry Taliban commanders.
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The government had to balance the need for a big enough take for the state to placate opponents of the reform with ensuring there was enough potential profit to attract foreign firms.
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Bakr sent a letter to brother Saleh formally handing him responsibility for the company, hoping that a change of management would placate the government, according to two people who saw the letter.
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While the Republican establishment had sought to placate China rather than stand up to its rampant trade abuses, the Democratic establishment had abandoned American workers in pursuit of job killing environmentalist policies.
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"My mom spent a great deal of her time and nearly all her energy trying so hard to placate him," said Sheridan Orr, who was with her distraught mother in North Carolina.
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She has yet to discover a compelling rebuttal to Trump on political correctness, and it will be difficult for her to placate opponents of immigration while holding her advantage with her base.
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WeWork appeared desperate to go public, for good reasonThose repeated efforts to try to placate and lure in investors smacked of desperation, said Jeff Langbaum, a real-estate analyst with Bloomberg Intelligence.
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The decision could also hurt the progress of Medicaid expansion, since some purple and red states could be less likely to expand Medicaid, as Virginia did, without work requirements to placate conservatives.
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In the view of Gene Kimmelman, then a senior official in the Justice Department Antitrust Division, Mr. Stephenson and his lieutenants were willing to compromise and find ways to placate the government.
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But he privately told senior aides that it was mainly meant to placate an agitated president, who was convinced that the people around him had to be pressured into keeping his secrets.
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She has repeatedly sought to placate the left since setting her sights on the presidency — an impulse many in her orbit say is reinforced by her campaign chair, Maya Harris, her sister.
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Are you sorry for what you've done or are you trying to placate the other person who believes you should be sorry for the thing you feel completely justified in having done?
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The replacement of a prime minister is a tactic frequently used by King Abdullah II, Jordan's ruler, in an attempt to placate the populace when discontent threatens the stability of the kingdom.
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When advertisers are fleeing en masse and every news story brings a fresh spate of terrible publicity, what better way to placate shareholders than with A-list names and safe, familiar content?
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He went too far trying to placate the white male vote at the expense of African-Americans, women, Latinos and others who were becoming a bigger part of the Democratic party coalition.
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To placate the United States, the Pakistani government placed Mr. Saeed under house arrest in January and put his organization on a watch list for groups that may be involved in terrorism.
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Ellis, who has a "sell" rating on IBM, thinks IBM can placate investors by announcing a succession plan for CEO Virginia "Ginni" Rometty, who is 62 and has run IBM since 2012.
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But the country, which shares a 121-mile northern border with Russia, sought to placate Moscow by pledging that no foreign troops would be allowed to be permanently stationed on its soil.
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The attack on US and UK airbases appears to be a calculated attempt by Iran to placate its hardliners while avoiding actions that would cause the crisis to spiral out of control.
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Warren's decision to placate and enmesh herself in these institutions is an indication that she has less interest in revolutionizing the party than in working within its creaky machinery to attain power.
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WeWork: The company's co-founder, Adam Neumann, is said to be stepping down as chief executive, in a dramatic attempt to placate investors and revive interest in the company's initial public offering.
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Not only is Facebook avoiding hard choices, Willner says, it is betraying the safety of its users to placate the politicians who have threatened to regulate or even break up the company.
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This stance has done little to placate protesters unhappy about Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd's plan to more than double the capacity of its Trans Mountain pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific Coast.
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Despite current injections of stimulus from Trump's recent fiscal measures like the December tax reform bill and planned budget increases, Janjuah warned that this would only placate things in the immediate term.
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The decision to put the portfolio of sites on the block was a recognition by Univision that it needed to reshape its business, in part to placate its own private equity owners.
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The Eastland Rule also weakened Obama's hand in negotiations with Senate Republicans, and sometimes forced him to name relatively conservative judges in order to placate senators who could veto judicial nominees. Sens.
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Concessions made in revising an earlier version of the ban did not placate critics, who argue that it still imposes a de facto religious test on travelers from six predominantly Muslim countries.
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Back in Beirut, to placate the Saudis, he asked Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, through intermediaries, to tone down his blistering speeches against Saudi Arabia's devastating war in Yemen and Prince Mohammed personally.
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But the F.B.I.'s decision to take additional investigative steps is sure to outrage Democrats who will see the inquiry as an attempt by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to placate the president.
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Spotify is hoping that this deal with the NMPA will placate most of the complaints from publishers and songwriters, and it can move on from those lawsuits, and it may be right.
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However, evaluating the market implications is difficult because candidate priorities "could shift" during the general election campaign, when candidates typically alter the rhetoric they used to placate the base during their primary contests.
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But this time, Murphy doesn't think the administration can placate the growing number of senators merely by sending the CIA director to brief them on the ghoulish details of Khashoggi's death, as Sen.
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It remains to be seen whether his more moderate record will be enough to placate the Republican senators who have publicly vowed to stall any nomination until after the general election in November.
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In an attempt to placate the ensuing outcry, a high-tech remotely operated undersea vehicle that will be known as Boaty in reference to the vote's outcome was also unveiled at Monday's ceremony.
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The real activists, however, say that Facebook, in this case, overshot its mark, overzealous perhaps in its attempt to placate a hostile Congress, while holding fast amid a week of ugly financial misfortune.
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The new rules, coming ahead of a general election, were seen as a bid by Modi to placate small traders, who had for years complained about business practices of large e-commerce players.
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But even if the Amona row is defused, to get this far Mr Netanyahu has been forced to placate his hardliners by endorsing a proposed "Regulation Law" for settlements built under similar circumstances.
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The addition of food items could help placate those concerns at a time when the U.S. election campaign is heating up and farmers are starting to run out of patience, the sources said.
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To snatch the presidency from him Mr Haddad, a former mayor of São Paulo and education minister, will have to placate voters who are disenchanted with the PT while retaining its core supporters.
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In an effort to placate investors after rejecting a takeover from Kraft Heinz, Unilever set out plans to restructure, which includes rethinking its dual legal structure and getting rid of its spreads business.
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Skeptics say the payments, and the News section in general, are also intended to placate news organizations, to quiet some of the noise and criticism about Facebook's role in upending media business models.
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It abandoned a promising education reform to placate a destructive opposition in congress, and showed little understanding of the realities of poverty (he appointed a corporate lobbyist as social-development minister, for example).
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Apple's new-found transparency on the matter is an attempt to placate pro users who have been waiting for a meaningful update to the company's modular desktop system for more than three-years.
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Former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, whose son is running against Ahok, made a speech two days ago calling for the governor to be prosecuted to placate the Islamist opposition and quell the protests.
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The Kremlin preferred to co-opt the powerful by allowing them access to rents, and to placate any public discontent with cash and foreign conquests, most notably the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
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It's also become clear that Trump is willing to deploy US troops in the Middle East to counter Iran, but he's suspended joint military exercises in the Asia-Pacific region to placate Kim.
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More traditional politicians, starting with Hillary Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, are moving to placate unhappy voters by promising "fair trade", using import rules to punish unfair competition by such rivals as China.
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The new OTC hearing aid category would make it possible for high-end PSAPs to brand themselves as hearing aids and reach a national market without having to placate gatekeepers within each state.
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But the proposed solution involves keeping in power a ruling elite that Iran has cultivated for years - unlikely to placate protesters who have been demanding the entire caste of politicians be swept aside.
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His voting record, one of the most liberal in the Senate, and rather wearing recent grandstanding against Trump nominees in the Senate Judiciary Committee, might be viewed as an effort to placate them.
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A week ago, CNBC's Jim Cramer was trying to placate investors' fears about a political crisis in Italy, which sent global markets reeling and resulted in the appointment of a new prime minister.
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Willkie's efforts to placate the regulars came too late and were likely undermined by a pledge to appoint an African-American to the Cabinet or to the Supreme Court—and to raise taxes.
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She is under pressure to get EU leaders at the main June 28-29 summit to agree to share out migrants more evenly to placate her conservative allies, Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU).
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Many, many women experience any or all of these situations on a daily basis, where a man approaches them and there's no way out but to placate him or continue an unwanted interaction.
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"The authorities' rush to send a child to the gallows in order to placate public anger is short-sighted and misguided," Magdalena Mughrabi, Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa deputy director, said.
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President Trump's recent decision to exempt some oil refiners from adding ethanol to their fuels spurred a backlash from corn farmers, prompting the administration to attempt to placate the loyal group of supporters.
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Mr. Bush tried to placate the defectors by promising to create a fetal tissue bank that would collect such tissue from several sources unrelated to induced abortions — such as miscarriages and tubal pregnancies.
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The deal with Huawei, inked as far back as 2010, is set to be terminated by the end of the week, Facebook said — but that will do little to placate lawmakers in Washington.
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When he convened an impromptu news conference Tuesday night, rather than reveal his updated plan to restore the Lakers to title contention and placate a frustrated fan base, Johnson did just the opposite.
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Comey released his letter not because he had any real information to impart but, it seems, to placate Republicans in Congress who are disappointed with his decision not to prosecute the Democratic nominee.
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The report, which arrived weeks after it tapped a group of corporate lawyers to review its content moderation policy, is widely seen as the short video app's effort to placate the U.S. government.
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Courting the supposed white mainstream while ignoring the material needs of black people, immigrants, transgender people and other marginalized communities will not placate Trumpian efforts to foment fear of the un-American outsider.
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The Astros compounded the problem by publicly denying the incident, another public-relations blunder for a team that had barred a credentialed reporter from its clubhouse in August to placate pitcher Justin Verlander.
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To placate the fears of these would-be supporters, the party has shifted its domestic policy, too, away from its traditional commitment to fiscal austerity and toward a kind of blue-collar conservatism.
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The government announced a series of reform plans, but with no concrete steps, it failed to placate protesters or reassure multilateral lenders enough to release billions in badly needed aid they had pledged.
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The verdict sparked street protests among members of Sergeant Tawayha's influential tribe, the Howeitat, who said he had acted within the rules of engagement and was being punished to placate a powerful ally.
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The all-male group that is working on the Senate's version of a health care bill includes staunch conservatives, a decision widely seen on Capitol Hill as a move to placate the right.
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To further placate critics, the DNC announced Friday that it would hold four forums around the country on the party platform in the weeks ahead, to give rank-and-file progressives more input.
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While facing investor criticism that Thyssenkrupp's conglomerate structure is outdated, Hiesinger has also sought to placate a unionized workforce fearful of job losses that might arise as a result of the steel merger.
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At times, Noelle seems designed for parents to turn it on to placate their hyperactive, Christmas-obsessed kids in the days leading up to the holiday, and on that level it mostly delivers.
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After haggling all night, leaders on Friday struck a deal on migration which managed to satisfy Italy's new government while giving German Chancellor Angela Merkel something that may placate her conservative Bavarian allies.
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Mostly, officials tried to placate legislators by citing the planned four-year schedule for closing the plant, while noting that some plants around the country had closed in as little as four months.
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READ: How tuk-tuk drivers became the unlikely heroes of Iraq's protests Protesters in Tahrir Square cheered the news of the resignation, but it is unclear if this alone will placate the demonstrators.
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"At this stage, the Chinese — at least on a rhetorical basis — are trying to placate the Americans," said Willy Lam, adjunct professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong's Center of Chinese Studies.
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Mr. Liang, they argued, was a scapegoat to placate a black community angered by the death of Eric Garner and other fatalities where the officers involved, most of them white, had gone unpunished.
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Chinese officials cynically believe—and will say in private—that Western leaders and envoys raise human rights out of a sense of reluctant obligation, in order to placate activists and public opinion back home.
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In the aftermath of the protests of 303-12, the Kremlin tried to placate Moscow's urban middle class by pouring money into building a model modern city, complete with bicycle lanes and food halls.
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Instead, this restriction on monetizing videos sounds like a temporary way for YouTube to placate advertisers, which have been distancing themselves from the platform since a video revealed predatory comments under videos featuring children.
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In November Mr Tsipras reshuffled his cabinet, replacing hardline leftists with younger, pragmatic folk, seemingly in order to placate Greece's creditors, who will meet on December 5th to tweak the latest bail-out programme.
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Most absurdly, it has agreed to move a statue of justice, depicted as a blindfolded woman in a sari, from in front of the supreme court, to placate protesters railing against idolatry (see article).
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Mr Rouhani's calculation, and hope, is that these steps are strong enough to placate hardliners at home and to signal Iran's resolve to America, but calibrated enough to avoid provoking Europe into reimposing sanctions.
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It's therefore possible that Beijing said it would reduce the tariffs, which were raised to 40 percent in July in response to Trump's trade war, as a mostly empty gesture to placate the president.
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As Rick and Morty fans are left still wondering when Season 3 of the animated series will be released, the folks at Adult Swim are hoping to placate them with tidbits of internet content.
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In a bid to placate farmers, Modi government offered direct cash support of an annual 6,000 Indian rupees ($86) to 120 million poor farmers and allocated more funds for a rural jobs guarantee scheme.
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Martelly's departure should placate opposition parties who accuse him of trying to unfairly favor his preferred candidate, Jovenel Moise, in the elections but could leave a power vacuum in the poor, volatile Caribbean nation.
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It's increasingly clear that anything goes in Silicon Valley's craven attempts to placate opportunists on the right — both within Congress and without — so long as that corporate cognitive dissonance keeps the lobbying wheels greased.
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Premier Li Keqiang said Monday China would treat foreign and domestic firms equally, not force foreign firms to transfer technology and would strengthen intellectual property rights, repeating promises that have failed to placate Washington.
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I felt that 'wife' was used as an attempt to placate all the men and women who will not vote for a woman unless they are able to see her first in domestic terms.
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Congress will set aside less than $1.4 billion for bollard fencing—a type of physical barrier that's close enough to a wall to placate Trump, and far enough from a wall to satisfy Democrats.
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The hope among Clinton allies is that she can bring reticent liberals on board with a sharp message of contrast with Mr. Trump, rather than an explicit campaign to placate the pro-Sanders left.
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" As Washington continues to try to reconcile the American-Turkish relationship with carrots, not sticks, I am reminded of an old friend's words: "In this part of the world, you cannot placate your enemies.
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Despite Trump's tweets -- and his lawyers' repeated attempts to placate him by ensuring him Mueller must be almost done -- the former FBI director continues to move at his own pace, unbothered by the distractions.
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While the TUC leadership seems capable mainly of organizing symbolic marches, and Labour MPs give navel-gazing speeches about how to placate racists, migrants are fighting the battles that are defining the British workplace.
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His moves have done nothing to placate protesters pushing for a new generation to take over from Bouteflika and other veterans of the 1954-1962 independence war against France who have dominated the country.
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Recently, Green Party Candidate and physician Jill Stein attempted to placate her existing supporters and potential converts alike worried that her candidacy is beginning to echo the spoiler campaign of Ralph Nader in 2000.
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In her secret tape recording of me, it was one of many times that I would placate Omarosa to move the discussion along because I was weary of her obsession over this alleged tape.
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Instead players experiment with up to four square frames of art, looking for connections as the main character — a boy who glimpses a colossal dragon prowling his city — seeks to placate this otherworldly beast.
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Baker rips into Mindy's perpetually boiling-over anger with vicious glee, while Woods sells Mike's waffling between wanting to placate Mindy and desperately trying to make a run for it with wide, watering eyes.
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It has also upset many independent creators, who, besides losing income, see it as a way to placate advertisers by punishing the powerless—the users who helped make the platform what it is today.
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He has been arrested and freed by local courts several times in the past, leading to accusations that Pakistan's action against militant leaders has been superficial and meant only to temporarily placate Western concerns.
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Mr Bolton held out the prospect of a quick trade deal, negotiated sector by sector (to placate those worried by American designs on Britain's health service) in the case of a no-deal Brexit.
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But patience is in short supply, and many teenage girls feel pressure to excel now — to impress a college coach, placate an ambitious parent or move up the ladder on some silly state ranking.
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The reaction from Trump - who has previously pressed reluctant European nations to take back their nationals among the Islamic State fighters captured on the battlefield in Syria - has done nothing to placate his allies.
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North Korea has refused to even acknowledge that the man killed was Kim Jong-nam and has accused Malaysia of carrying out a politically motivated investigation to placate South Korea and the United States.
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North Korea has refused to even acknowledge that the dead man was Kim Jong-nam and has accused Malaysia of carrying out a politically motivated investigation to placate South Korea and the United States.
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Telling her son that he's normal, and meaning it, represents a huge step forward from making him pretend he's straight to placate the family's neighbors, as she did in the beginning of the season.
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Even the promise of a speech from Elizabeth Warren, a progressive hero to many of Sanders's supporters, didn't seem to be enough to placate Sanders die-hards as the convention kicked off Monday afternoon.
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Almost as sad as A-Rod falling just short of the satisfyingly round 700 home runs is that he only figured out how to placate the media in the final years of his career.
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Betting on major events that people have to watch in the moment is a good way to placate advertisers, who really would love everyone to return to watching live television as much as possible.
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By opting to placate senators crucial to his drive to seize control of the Senate from Republicans, Schumer angered the party's left, potentially complicating already difficult efforts to craft legislation to help the Dreamers.
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Svitolina finally got on the scoreboard in the fourth game, able to placate the Stephens forehand with some brilliant defense, but the American continued to pound away at the corners to maintain her break advantage.
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President Emmanuel Macron's concessions to the so-called yellow vest movement in the wake of last Saturday's unrest— such as scrapping an unpopular "green tax" on diesel and petrol — have failed to placate the protesters.
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Macri's re-election bid is looking increasingly fraught as he struggles to tame annual inflation running above 50 percent and placate a electorate hard-hit by the economic malaise, a volatile peso and rising poverty.
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Still, after the 2014 midterms in November, Republicans and business leaders believed they had found a way to placate voters' fears and contain the insurgencies, a conclusion that turned out to be far from correct.
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Jaiprakash, which has interests in roads, property and is best-known as the builder of India's Formula One racing track, has been trying to sell its cement business to reduce debt and placate its banks.
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In response, Trump said that as far as he knew, the meeting was still on track and sought to placate Kim by saying the North Korean leader would be protected as part of any deal.
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Zuma has come under increasing calls to resign, including from within the ANC, following a series of corruption scandals, and analysts say Molefe's removal will placate the top echelons of the ANC who want unity.
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They are also likely to try to placate investors by slashing non-essential spending in order to lower the primary fiscal deficit (ie, before interest payments) to below this year's target of 3.2% of GDP.
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Even the constitutional court's ruling on May 3rd that struck out parts of the electoral law, including those that would have prevented Mr Ravalomanana and Mr Rajoelina from running, has failed to placate the opposition.
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In a bid to placate farmers, the Modi government offered direct cash support of an annual 6,000 Indian rupees ($86) to 120 million poor farmers and allocated more funds for a rural jobs guarantee scheme.
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This silence was likely driven by a mix of domestic and global political concerns — the desire to balance India's ambitions as a modern economic power, while trying to placate some of its more conservative supporters.
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Uber, in its ever-present quest to placate drivers without bending on too many of their demands, is rolling out a slew of new features designed to take some of the edge off of driving.
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Apple's move to alter that economic relationship comes just in time to placate grumbling developers while also making the App Store more resilient to dealing with a fixed, rather than constantly growing, number of customers.
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And there are hints that even those protections might be traded away if McConnell needs to placate senators on the right in order to get the bill passed by next week, which is his goal.
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Government handouts for the poor, pledges to prosecute corrupt officials and create more jobs for graduates have failed to placate protesters, whose demands include a new electoral system and the removal of all current leaders.
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But in seeking to placate several different audiences at once—including conservatives who claim that Twitter is biased against their views—Dorsey is the rare case where the apologies have only made the situation worse.
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By bringing down these tariffs, the chancellor would placate the U.S. president, but such a step would also take away most of the basis for the president's claim that the EU is unfair on trade.
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The hope here it would seem is that Zenefits — and Sacks — can quickly put all this in the past and start rebuilding the company and placate investors, rather than having to face off against them.
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As part of planned measures to placate the "yellow vest" protest movement against his policies, President Emmanuel Macron is considering easing the requirements for calling a referendum in a constitutional reform scheduled for this summer.
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Ms. Lam has tried to placate the business sector, and has gestured at a compromise by shortening the list of proposed crimes that would warrant extradition to China — excluding white-collar and business-related crimes.
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The new e-commerce rules seemed to be an attempt by Mr. Modi to placate small traders, who have been hurt by his tax and financial policies, ahead of national elections next May, analysts said.
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May's government that fought to extend the backstop to the whole of the United Kingdom as opposed to just Northern Ireland, partly in an unsuccessful effort to placate its Northern Irish partner, the Democratic Unionists.
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Yet those concessions did not placate critics of the ban, who said it would still function as an unconstitutional religious test, albeit one affecting fewer people — an argument Judge Watson concurred with in his ruling.
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Although Twitter's users have long argued for the benefits of an edit button, the company has always been ambivalent; happy to consider the question to placate its users, but never actually committing to a fix.
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A reader wrote to Carolyn in 2014 about dating again after their husband's suicide, which they had recently started in part to placate an 8-year-old son who was worried about them being alone.
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On social media, where Fyre Festival had been sold as a selfie-taker's paradise, accounts showed none of the aspirational A-lister excesses, with only sad sandwiches and free alcohol to placate the restless crowds.
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Trump has launched a charm offensive of the type not seen before in his brief and chaotic tenure, forcefully rallying behind legislation to repeal the Obamacare healthcare law while trying to placate the bill's opponents.
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Heng North Korea has refused to even acknowledge that the man killed was Kim Jong-nam and has accused Malaysia of carrying out a politically motivated investigation to placate South Korea and the United States.
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But the trade off for Barr could well be that his actions will serve to placate the president, whose anger at DOJ has been bubbling up for several months, both in private and in public.
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John Elkann, scion of the Agnelli family whose Exor holding controls FCA via a 13% stake, has sought to placate the French and Italian governments, while also keeping shareholders including Renault's alliance partner Nissan on board.
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All of these companies take pain to present themselves as simply the unbiased operators of the digital public square, which in practice usually means trying to placate whoever is angriest at them at any given moment.
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Or (more likely) to placate other interest groups who are more organized when it comes to greasing the right set of political wheels — and the next round of crypto skirmishes will rat-tat-tat up again.
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Qualcomm has already agreed to form a strategic partnership with Baidu in the interim around AI and deep learning, which one source said to me was part of a package of concessions offered to placate Beijing.
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Republican Senator Rand Paul, a vocal conservative opponent of McConnell's legislation, said Republican leaders have already done a lot to "placate moderates" and that more elements of Obamacare needed to go to get conservatives on board.
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John Elkann, scion of the Agnelli family whose Exor holding controls FCA via a 29% stake, has sought to placate the French and Italian governments, while also keeping shareholders including Renault's alliance partner Nissan on board.
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An equally telling exchange came in April this year when Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister, fired a top adviser in an apparent gesture to placate the army over what had become known as the Dawn leaks.
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The military council that has taken power has attempted to placate the protestors by appointing new heads of the army, police and security services; lifting restrictions on free speech and the media; and releasing some protesters.
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Around the same time, the Trump administration released a report saying Beijing had done little to placate the US. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross defended the 10% tariffs in September, saying consumers would not notice the increase.
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The EU tried to reassure the U.K. that this was only a last-resort but that failed to placate Brexiteers in Parliament, and the Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which props up Theresa May's government.
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However, the reduction comes a few months after Disney increased the targets Iger must meet in order to collect his performance bonuses, a move to placate shareholders who pushed back against the CEO's salary last March.
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In fact, a number of advocates and council members who originally pushed Right to Know came out against Torres's "identification" bill, arguing that it included too many loopholes, ostensibly intended to placate cops and the mayor.
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That is partly because of splits among, and within, EU countries: according to one source this week's talks were held largely to placate German Social Democrats in whom vestiges of the old Ostpolitik linger (see article).
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The BJP was defeated by the opposition Congress party in three major states in local elections this month because of rural anger, and Modi's government is under pressure to come up with measures to placate farmers.
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Moving too far rightward to placate conservatives could stir up opposition from moderate Republicans and lead to a bill that stokes a powerful backlash among millions of Americans who would lose health insurance - including many Republicans.
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Civilians who fled the west in recent days said the militants had announced they would soon distribute food and break the siege in an attempt to placate their increasingly desperate subjects and convince them to stay.
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Or perhaps senators will actually listen to the women leading the resistance and understand that we're angry and motivated -- and putting another misogynist in power won't placate us, even if she happens to be a woman.
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Promising an EU referendum was the sop Cameron offered to placate his right-wing backbenchers, and to the extent that same-sex marriage led to Brexit, it's a fine case of the Law of Unintended Consequences.
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Mr. Pence, who supported Senator Ted Cruz of Texas in Indiana's Republican primary, is a first-term governor with strong credentials as a social conservative that could help Mr. Trump placate that wing of the party.
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The anti-government protests will slow growth to close to a standstill in the final quarter, the central bank said on Monday, complicating President Emmanuel Macron's task of finding concessions to placate the "yellow vest" movement.
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The play, staged this month and next in Berlin's historic Volksbuehne, is an adaptation of Euripides' 2,500-year-old story of a princess sacrificed by her father, the Greek King Agamemnon, to placate an angry goddess.
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Read more: Huawei is trying to sell all its 5G patents to a Western buyer in a bid to placate Trump and dodge national security concernsHuawei is the second-biggest smartphone manufacturer globally, ahead of Apple.
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"In her secret tape recording of me, it was one of many times that I would placate Omarosa to move the discussion along because I was weary of her obsession over this alleged tape," Pierson wrote.
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The company launched one buyback programme at the end of its last financial year in March, again intended to placate shareholders after a more than one-third drop in its share price since listing in 2018.
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Now, at a minimum, organizers will have to pay to continue maintaining the venues, keep staff members on for another year, and placate sponsors and broadcasters who have already spent billions of dollars on the event.
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That would help Beijing settle the trade war started by President Trump; head off policies aimed at constraining China's global presence; and placate governments that have criticized the party's positions on Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet.
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So the company added what Mr. Jammet calls a concierge during peak hours to make sure that the grab-and-go contingent gets help if need be, and to welcome — and placate — the people in line.
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The new version could be a way to bring in more customers, better compete with rivals like Popeyes and Chick-fil-A, and placate its franchise operators, which have been lobbying hard for the menu item.
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Where it stands: Draghi also tried to placate the heads of Europe's consumer banks by instituting a tiered deposit system that would spare some banks from having to pay the central bank to park their reserves.
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The question is whether North Korean leader Kim Jong Un left them out of the celebration to placate Trump, or if the choice to leave out ICBMs had nothing to do with the US at all.
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Monday the country would treat foreign and domestic firms equally, not force foreign firms to transfer technology and would strengthen intellectual property rights, repeating promises that have failed to placate Washington.
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Every attempt to placate his party and top advisers by acknowledging publicly that Moscow did, in fact, interfere in the 2016 election was followed by a last minute ad-lib clearly intended to diminish the Putin's culpability.
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Movie director Quentin Tarantino's reported refusal to re-cut his film "Once Upon a Time" in Hollywood to placate Chinese censors ensures that Sony will not be able to release the film in the large Chinese market.
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But the Pakistani-born Nanjiani, who was also facing family pressure to enter into an arranged marriage, stuck by his then-girlfriend while simultaneously trying to placate his parents and keep his relationship with Gordon a secret.
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Organisers said 1.9m people joined the second of these demonstrations—a turnout that was all the more remarkable given that the government, less than a day earlier, had made a humiliating U-turn to placate the protesters.
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The effort to win over Dalits gets to the heart of the dilemma facing Modi: he must placate wealthier and middle class Hindu voters while appealing to the broader electorate with a vision of a better future.
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Ahmed Senbel, president of the National Federation of Independent Taxis, said after the meeting that he felt Mr. Valls was fully aware of the problem, but he warned that the announcements might not placate the taxi drivers.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has tried to placate the increasingly vocal critics of her open-door policy for refugees by insisting that most refugees from Syria and Iraq would go home once the conflicts there had ended.
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Government handouts for the poor, promises to prosecute corrupt officials and create more job opportunities for graduates have failed to placate protesters, whose demands include a new electoral system and the removal of all current political leaders.
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Government handouts for the poor, promises to prosecute corrupt officials and create more job opportunities for graduates have failed to placate protesters, whose demands include a new electoral system and the removal of all current political leaders.
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Instead of any grand gestures that would placate Washington but present domestic challenges for quick implementation, Wu said he expects Xi to reaffirm "that he has no intention to reverse" on China's path of reform and opening.
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To give himself a chance to write the second draft, Mr Macri is pursuing policies that seek to balance economic stability with the need to placate groups that could disrupt his presidency and thwart his re-election.
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Handouts for the poor, promises to try corrupt officials and creation of more job opportunities for graduates have failed to placate protesters, whose demands include a new electoral system and the removal of all current political leaders.
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Nigeria's oil output has rebounded this year, aided by government efforts to placate militants in the Niger Delta region where the bulk of the country's crude is produced, but it has struggled to maintain peak output levels.
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He worked the phones to placate angry Republicans and urged Mr. Trump to deliver a pre-written, unequivocally pro-Israel speech in front of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the influential lobbying group known as Aipac.
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It did not refer to the meeting, but the article underscores the government's efforts to placate worries about supplies and outline moves to increase soybean imports from other countries to reduce its reliance on the United States.
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The extra dollars are likely to placate defense hawks that pushed for a full-year Pentagon funding bill in the measure, a plan that was dropped after the Senate made it clear they wouldn't support such legislation.
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One could also argue that Mr. Cameron left the problem in her lap: He is the one who promised to hold the Brexit referendum, a monumental gamble he made to placate the Euroskeptic wing of his party.
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"The way they are rereleasing seems designed to placate interventionists at the expense of the credibility of the research; that's a pity," said Marc Lynch, who directs a center of Middle East studies at George Washington University.
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Days before Mr. Trump's visit to Manila this Sunday, it disclosed that President Rodrigo Duterte had ordered construction halted on a disputed sandbar in the South China Sea, a move widely regarded as intended to placate Beijing.
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The role is in part an attempt to placate one of the platform's most vibrant communities: According to a statistic provided by Instagram, meme content gets shared seven times more than non-meme content on the app.
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One of the early objectives of Schumer's leadership has been to placate the increasingly powerful Sanders, whom he made a member of his leadership team, and Schumer has said that he endorsed Ellison because Sanders recommended him.
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Even though that vote was nonbinding, Prime Minister Mark Rutte was forced to seek written assurances from other European leaders to help ensure passage through his country's Parliament and to placate voters who had opposed the agreement.
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The extra dollars are likely to placate defense hawks who pushed for a full-year Pentagon funding bill in the measure, a plan that was dropped after the Senate made it clear they wouldn't support such legislation.
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Even though it took several days of heated protests for the Cambridge unit to change its mind, the publisher's ultimate decision highlights moves taken in the opposite direction by multinational corporations to placate regulators on the mainland.
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At the same time, Mr. West worked to placate investigators who were digging into the 2016 data breach, which Uber had kept secret and which had prompted numerous state lawsuits for violation of data breach notification laws.
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In his first year in office, he has led the country to renegotiate a free trade agreement with the US and Canada, and to placate the United States over migration by stepping up controls at Mexico's southern border.
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French President Emmanuel Macron announced tax cuts and wage rises on Monday in a bid to placate anti-government protesters, but the move will increase France's budget deficit and is likely to create tensions with the European Commission.
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Once word got out from former employees that the company worked to suppress conservative news sources in its now-defunct trending stories section, Facebook has been trying to placate its critics on the right by any means necessary.
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For the first half of his term he pandered mostly to better-off, better-educated city folk; the choice of a firebrand priest is meant to placate a different and restless demographic, his party's rural Hindu-nationalist base.
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Team Xi did misjudge Mr Trump, wrongly assuming that this businessman-president, so charming in private with Mr Xi, could be bought off with the sort of tactical concessions that China has long used to placate angry foreigners.
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On Thursday, Trump sought to placate North Korea after it threatened to call off the summit, saying Kim's security would be guaranteed in any deal and that his country would not suffer the fate of Muammar Gaddafi's Libya.
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But the concession was not enough to placate the companies, given that the turnover tax and new export restrictions approved last year remain in force, coupled with the risk the state could simply shift the goal posts again.
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Zwiers noted that the company does not condone third-party sellers and is hoping that the printable Santa letters will help placate children so that parents won't have to shell out more than market price for the toy.
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Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd rose about 0.1 percent after it said it would remove sales incentives for financial planning bonuses, in a move to placate regulators amid a damaging inquiry into the country's financial sector.
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When the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) swept to power in 1991 after a bloody 15-year civil war, federalism was seen as a way to placate the ethnic liberation movements that helped it to power.
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Such voices from the 2016 presidential campaign have emboldened lawmakers who seek to limit the Fed's powers and are prompting some current and former Fed officials to call for steps to placate the U.S. central bank's harshest critics.
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Meanwhile, the biggest threat to Ryan's speakership is internal, given that Republicans would probably win more seats in 2018—his incentive is to placate his own party and the right and hope for a Republican president in 2020.
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It is on him that that the American people are being treated like dupes by a president who lies to them in order to implement misguided policy only to placate the likes of Anne Coulter and Sean Hannity.
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With the Supercharger network in place, Tesla is able not only to further placate those with fears of running out of juice in everyday driving but also to make multistate road trips a reasonable reality for EV drivers.
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ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's newly-appointed prime minister has started talks to form a new government, state media reported on Sunday, in a move designed to placate protesters demanding President Abdel Aziz Bouteflika and his inner circle step down.
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The latest conciliatory tone struck by Beijing to placate Washington does not mean China is less serious about its high-tech manufacturing drive, with local governments still rolling out plans to help manufactuers move up the value chain.
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Warren's entire plan is designed not as a serious policy proposal but as an electoral conceit which is designed to placate at worst and steal at best people on the progressive left who do not trust her proposal.
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What's far more irksome is Claire's willingness to toss aside the entire bill — one she feels passionately about, if her teary robocall pleas are to be believed — in order to placate the N.R.A. and make Austin go away.
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But now it has been tasked with patrolling the border to placate President Donald Trump, who has demanded Mexico stem the flow of U.S.-bound Central Americans that pass through the country or risk tariffs on Mexican goods.
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"We can say that this shake-up was principally conducted to placate the public and certain segments inside the police," said Ahmed Kamel El-Beheiri, a security researcher at the state-run Al-Ahram Center for Strategic Studies.
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Steel and aluminum trade groups hailed the decision to ditch some favorable export tariffs as a symbolic step as China seeks to placate the United States after it lodged a complaint with the World Trade Organization last year.
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And while House Speaker Paul Ryan still insists that Congress will repeal and replace it this year, his wishful statements are clearly meant in large measure just to placate the burn-it-all-down wing of his caucus.
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In an effort to win over wavering lawmakers and to placate a public weary of seven years of austerity, the government has also prepared legislation that would introduce some so-called countermeasures, including social benefits for the poor.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's top sugar refiner said it will increase purchases of the commodity from India, which according to two sources is part of efforts to placate New Delhi amid an ongoing spat over palm oil imports.
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MONTREAL, Sept 24 (Reuters) - China has denounced a landmark U.N. deal that caps emissions from international flights, in a setback for an industry eager to placate the growing international movement to curb air travel's impact on the environment.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary on Thursday scrambled to placate pilots and reassure investors as the airline's annual general meeting was dominated by the cancellation of 0.63,000 flights in a "cock-up" that exposed major staffing issues.
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Claiming that the camps actually help the detained Muslims by readying them for a different, productive path is a transparent attempt to placate Muslims around the world -- including Muslim leaders that China does a lot of business with.
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To placate countries like Poland and the Baltic states that look to NATO as a counterweight to possible Russian aggression, the mandate of the so-called Military Planning and Conduct Capability office is expected to be relatively modest.
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The reaction to a sitting president commenting on the perceived nastiness of a member of Queen Elizabeth's family — who put on a state dinner at Buckingham Palace, to impress and placate him — was reliably parsed along tribal lines.
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The lists have been a major part of a broader campaign by bishops to apologize for the church's failures as they seek to placate Catholics outraged by the scandal and brace for the findings of law enforcement investigations.
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But alcoholism and addiction is no excuse for a pattern of behavior that involves sexually harassing and assaulting other people — nor should it placate those who have supported Dick in the past when he continues to indulge it.
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The tensions within the ANC will mean that political energy will be absorbed by efforts to maintain party unity and fend off leadership challenges and to placate rising social pressures for addressing inequality, poverty and weak public service delivery.
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And while a simple after-school drop-in centre might placate over anxious parents terrified at the thought of kids hanging around outside some bike sheds, there's a lot more to it than just four walls and a roof.
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But even if that made sense as anything other than a fruitless effort to placate Mr Trump, it would not alter Mr Bannon's damning characterisation of a meeting that the Trump team has sought to dismiss as a "nothingburger".
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Hoping to placate the mob, he promised to increase the take-home pay of minimum-wage earners by 8%, to let workers get overtime pay and Christmas bonuses tax-free and to revoke higher social charges on modest pensions.
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He promised that the door to foreign businesses would "open only ever wider" under his stewardship, but offered no specifics that are likely to placate Donald Trump (notwithstanding a tweet from the American president saying he was "very thankful").
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But the silver-haired lawyer's deliberative demeanor – which inspired Trump to suggest he comes from "central casting" for the role of vice president – along with the absence of a Twitter addiction would probably placate investors of all political persuasions.
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Patterson, 22.1, tried to placate shareholders by maintaining the dividend on Thursday — and pledging to keep it flat for the next two years — and he also agreed a new pension funding plan to plug its 22020 billion pound deficit.
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Morales, speaking at an earlier news conference, had tried to placate critics saying he would replace the electoral tribunal for the new vote, though his opponents — already angry that he ran in defiance of term limits — were not assuaged.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has launched a charm offensive of the type not seen before in his brief and chaotic tenure, forcefully rallying behind legislation to repeal the Obamacare healthcare law while trying to placate the bill's opponents.
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The move is designed to placate concerns in the West about Huawei's 5G dominance, coupled with the national security concerns from the Trump administration, which argues that Huawei could act as a proxy for the Chinese government to spy.
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If Schumer plays hardball now and denies Gorsuch 60 votes, Mitch McConnell would have a compelling argument to placate Republican Senate "old bulls" like John McCain who are worried the nuclear option would further erode their already-endangered institution.
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Domestic politics could very soon dominate Trump's agenda, and to placate supporters he could decide to rapidly act on some of his riskier foreign policies, such as threatening to withdraw from NAFTA, or bring some overseas US troops home.
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These days, the Republican leadership has to placate the three dozen members of the far-right Freedom Caucus, who vote as a bloc and are perpetually spoiling to overthrow the Speaker if he deviates from a highly partisan orthodoxy.
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Who knows if the fact that Deen won in those minor categories was the AVN's attempt to placate the alleged rapist, a way to honor his collaborative efforts, or if the wins were completely unrelated to him at all.
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Pledges to spend more in poorer regions and allow up to 1,000 family members each month to join refugees already living in Germany also seemed designed to placate SPD members skeptical of the benefits of governing with Merkel anew.
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Algerian generals may have forced an end to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's 20-year rule to placate the crowds, but Algerians are now confronting the difficulty of challenging the entrenched system of cronyism and corruption that governed from behind him.
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But it may be an attempt by Mr. Joko, who is running for re-election next year, to placate political rivals who say he is "opening the floodgates" to foreign workers by streamlining the process for obtaining work permits.
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His move failed to placate Algerians, who want veterans of the 1954-1962 independence war against France who dominate the establishment to step aside so a new generation of leaders can create jobs, fight corruption and introduce greater freedoms.
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But people familiar with the documents signed by senior officials early in the administration previously told CNN the documents contain little legal underpinning and were devised as a way to placate a President intent on keeping his aides quiet.
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Such rhetorical pandering failed to placate the rising tide of jihadism around the world in 2015, and may well have given pause to our Muslim allies about the seriousness of Obama's fight against the enemy he refused to name.
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"It was something that was discussed and people were trying to placate the president, and trying to show that they were taking it as personally and just as seriously as he was," one former White House official told Politico.
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In an attempt to placate irked investors, Hargreaves executives waived their full-year bonuses and also management fees charged to clients trapped in the fund, a move which the company said on Friday had cost it 2.3 million pounds.
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That's why U.B.I. is so favored by Silicon Valley elites, writes Carmen Petaccio in The New Inquiry: It promises to placate the working class without actually changing the fundamental relations between bosses and workers, the rich and the poor.
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OTTAWA/MONTREAL (Reuters) - With his political future at stake, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will mount a charm offensive to placate dairy farmers who say he sold them out in order to win approval of a continental trade deal.
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It remained unclear Friday morning whether that effort would be enough, however, to placate an angry base about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy being left out of the deal after months of pressing to have it included.
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Critics, including political allies of Lopez Obrador, say Mexico is doing too much to placate Trump, after an agreement to stave off the tariff threat that has led to a deployment of more than 20,000 National Guard and soldiers.
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NEUBRANDENBURG, Germany (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday tried to placate the increasingly vocal critics of her open-door policy for refugees, insisting that asylum seekers from Syria and Iraq would go home once the conflicts there had ended.
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Lara increasingly began to be seen as an example of a character whose "strength" is deceptive, usually depicted as purely physical, while her primary purpose is to placate the male gaze, and her overall character satisfies a patriarchal depiction of femininity.
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Former prime minister David Cameron first pledged a referendum in 2013 while governing in coalition with the pro-EU Liberal Democrats in a bid to placate his party's eurosceptic wing and fend off support for the anti-EU UK Independence Party.
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However, US officials reportedly were looking for ways to remain in the agreement, asking for language that would placate US coal producers, and for ways to lower its emissions levels to below the ones set by the Obama administration in 2016.
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The promotion of a junior minister could also help placate younger members of the party, many of whom are angry at her mishandling of the snap election campaign and feel they should be given a chance to regenerate the party's support.
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He tried to placate them this week by approving plans for more than 3,000 new homes, mainly in Jewish neighbourhoods of East Jerusalem and the big "settlement blocs" which are expected to be part of Israel in any future peace agreement.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump is taking several steps to placate angry Republicans after a disastrous run which saw his impeachment defense shredded by current and ex-officials and, most stunningly, by his own acting White House chief of staff.
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Failure to placate those rebels could force a tight vote with serious consequences for both May's authority as leader of a minority government and the future trading relationship between Britain and the EU. Writing by William Schomberg, editing by Larry King
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To placate conservatives put off by Merkel's open-door policy ahead of a September federal election, leaders of her Christian Democrat party (CDU) have been pushing to deport more migrants whose applications have failed or foreigners who have committed crimes.
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The third is bargaining: those Remainers who, like many of those who spoke up this week in House of Lords debates, accept that it will happen but want to moderate it or at least placate their Remainer supporters by grumbling.
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Moonves was so troubled by the possibility of the actress Bobbie Phillips going public that he even coordinated with her agent, Marv Dauer, to placate her into silence by casting her on CBS shows well after the #MeToo movement began.
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While the new safeguards might placate some users, they don't address the core issues brought up by the murder: making sure potentially dangerous people aren't allowed on the platform in the first place, or are dealt with promptly when complaints surface.
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The biggest mistake we ever made with trolls was making the question of abuse about how to placate and fix them instead of how to empower the people they hurt or manage your own well-being in the face of them.
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"The government is trying to run a fine line between making Australia conducive as a place to invest in, but at the same time trying to placate the more extreme manifestations of populism," Monash University political scientist Nick Economou said.
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NEUBRANDENBURG, Germany (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel tried on Saturday to placate the increasingly vocal critics of her open-door policy for refugees by insisting that most refugees from Syria and Iraq would go home once the conflicts there had ended.
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"It's your turn to pick" has become an inordinate burden, especially because the entire purpose of watching TV is, more often than not, to placate the stupid parts of your brain and shut off the ones that do any heavy lifting.
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Ryan is basically saying that House Republicans would've gone ballistic if they found out about the Weiner emails after the election—in other words, Comey was probably trying to placate a Republican establishment with an aggressive appetite for amplifying pseudo-scandals.
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They are also rationalizing that about-face by the president's allegedly futile attempt (a) to placate the sworn enemies in his own party, and (b) to deflect attention from his troubled agenda with regard to healthcare, budget issues and foreign trade.
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By the time the midterms rolled around, she no longer had a viable challenger in the field, but her position nevertheless seemed distinctively weak as she veered this way and that to placate various factions and put her winning coalition together.
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FRANKFURT/DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) - Heinrich Hiesinger's position as Thyssenkrupp's CEO is more precarious than it has ever been as he prepares to unveil a new strategy to placate impatient investors, including Cevian and Elliott, people familiar with the matter said.
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In light of that, Samsung isn't likely to abandon its strategy of selling phones hand over fist through carriers anytime soon, but today's announcement is a move that should placate the handful of people that buy unlocked phones each year.
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Barr apologized publicly to Jarrett over the remark and stated that she would leave the social media platform over the ensuing controversy, but that was not enough to placate executives at ABC who cut ties with the comedian hours later.
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Placate the base to pass the liberal Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisEight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Biden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report The Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters MORE litmus test?
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"There's this sense that we have to placate what white America believes is an appropriate way to be black," says Stidhum, a writer and director who wrote about her Popeyes-induced panic in a playful essay on transcending racial stereotypes.
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Currently the trade war is on hold until March 1, following personal negotiations between Trump and Xi. This leaves the Chinese President with a stressful start to the year -- trying to placate the US while not giving too much away.
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Morales, speaking at an earlier news conference, had tried to placate critics with a pledge to replace the electoral tribunal for the new vote, though his opponents - already angry that he ran in defiance of term limits - were not assuaged.
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Li told a conference that included global chief executives that China would treat foreign and domestic firms equally, would not force foreign firms to transfer technology and would strengthen intellectual property rights, repeating promises that have failed to placate Washington.
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But on Sunday Temer, governing with rock-bottom approval ratings, announced plans to placate striking truck drivers - protesting the high cost of diesel - by freezing fuel prices on a monthly basis and taking other measures to bring domestic diesel prices down.
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And it remained the Senate's turn for months, as Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, stalled for time, trying to placate some male senators concerned about their potential financial exposure under the House bill, as The Wall Street Journal recently described it.
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Across the world, autocratic leaders are engaging in increasingly brazen behavior — rigging votes, muzzling the press and persecuting opponents — as they dispense with even a fig leaf of democratic practice once offered to placate the United States or gain international legitimacy.
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But nearly a decade of constant and cynical assault on what was supposed to be a compromise bill has pushed the Democratic Party left on health care policy, and persuaded Democrats everywhere that trying to compromise or placate Republicans is foolish.
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In his speech, Mr. Puigdemont appeared to be trying to placate several factions within his unwieldy alliance of separatist lawmakers, who control a majority of the seats in the Catalan Parliament after winning 48 percent of the votes in 2015.
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"I never had to have a guarantor in my life," said Mr. Donahue, who tried to placate landlords by telling them that in addition to the security deposit, he had renters' insurance that would cover any potential damages to the apartment.
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Officials in Beijing had expressed confidence that their gestures to Mr. Trump — including the lifting on Tuesday of a 14-year embargo on American beef imports — would placate Mr. Trump, whose platform as a candidate had signaled a more confrontational policy.
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Generously funded by the Saudi royals to placate their restive clerical establishment, the campaign to spread Wahhabism extended to Europe, Africa and Australia, with a large outpost in the Washington suburbs and the gleaming King Fahad Mosque in Culver City.
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Lately Congress has been in an uproar over health care, and House Speaker Paul (My Life Is Ruined) Ryan is going crazy trying to placate both sides on the matter of insurance coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions.
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In the coming days we will see if current Justice Department officials decide to placate a persistent President, or whether they hold firm in adhering to the important precept that dictates their work be done impartially, without fear or favor.
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As Gavyn Davies says, China seems "increasingly confident it can weather the trade wars," and it's not showing any urge to placate the U.S. So this might seem to be a good time to hit the pause button and rethink strategy.
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In an attempt to placate skeptical conservatives during his campaign, he took the unprecedented step of providing movement leaders with the list of names from which he would pick, leaving activists reasonably assured that they would be comfortable with his decision.
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"It was something that was discussed and people were trying to placate the president and trying to show that they were taking it as personally and just as seriously as he was," one of the former White House officials said.
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Compare that to a bill condemning the Armenian genocide, which — in part as an effort to placate the Turkish government — the White House has been able to stop three separate times using three different Senators over the past few weeks.
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As Gavyn Davies says, China seems "increasingly confident it can weather the trade wars," and it's not showing any urge to placate the U.S. So this might seem to be a good time to hit the pause button and rethink strategy.
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Cooking is as much a trade as an art: A chef must, mundanely, negotiate with vendors, run inventory, train staff, maintain safety protocols in the middle of the most helter-skelter dinner service and occasionally compromise dishes to placate restive customers.
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The Democratic party tried several last-gasp efforts to placate American officials, including dispatching a key lieutenant to Washington and announcing plans to move Moldova's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, a decision intended to impress President Trump.
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In an era when companies tend to go silent prior to the release of a new handset, there's little question why Samsung is letting some info slip months ahead of a potential launch, as it attempts to placate customers and investors alike.
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In order to placate Bennett, Israeli media reports said Netanyahu had promised the ministers to clear the way for expanded settlement construction in east Jerusalem and in major West Bank settlement "blocs" that Israel hopes to keep under a future peace deal.
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"What I think a lot of analysts are worried about ... is if the Saudis continue to try to placate Trump, they are going to be oversupplying this market," Helima Croft, global head of commodity strategy at RBC Capital Markets, told CNBC last week.
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To the union, the most pressing problems are twofold: Nobody knows what YouTube's rules are, and since YouTube has tailored its policies to placate its (lucrative) advertising partnerships, the rules seem to represent an implicit gag order for some categories of creator.
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Such actions have done little to placate the company's growing cadre of critics in France, where it manages 27 billion euros in assets for local clients and invests over €185 billion, or $200 billion, in French equities and corporate and government bonds.
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In interviews with the Wall Street Journal, sources close to Ford's CEO said that he saw the Lincoln MKC move as a "relatively painless" way to placate Trump, who has long criticized the company for investing in Mexico, where wages are lower.
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To placate them, Mr Temer has hinted he may amend the reform by decree, which is subject to a simple up-or-down vote in Congress, in order to phase out the obligatory dues gradually (and possibly water down some other provisions).
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Facebook has sought to placate concerns about how fake news can spread on its platform by introducing various tools and processes intended to add more context around news content and/or try to limit the spread of fake news by hampering malicious actors.
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President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador created the National Guard to bring down record homicide rates, but almost a third of its members are now assigned to patrolling the border to placate President Donald Trump's demands of stemming the flow of U.S.-bound migrants.
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This time they have no idea how long the work will take, and there still doesn't seem to be a game plan from the White House or Republican leaders, who are frantically trying to placate the far-right wing of the party.
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Plenty of ICO projects waste time and precious resources putting out mundane press releases that are devoid of news just to produce something that they hope will placate their thirsty community of retail investors, and miraculously give their token a price jump.
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